yep. ovens

today i have been trying to secure the safe delivery of a new oven for our flat. its proved harder than i initially thought. the landlord insists on ringing my housemate ben, even though ben keeps telling him hes at work.he leaves ben messages calling him jamie and calls me ben when i speak to him. anyway. so i phone him. he shouts at me for not answering my phone. i tell him he was phoning ben not me. we make up. he says hes bought us a new oven and can they deliver it next week. i say yes. fine. he says actually can he deliver it this weekend. again, thats fine. then he says can he deliver it today. i say yes again. its bloody fine mate. just get the bastard here so i can get the birdseye chicken pies ive had in the freezer for two months cooked and eaten. he then says he needs to phone the delivery people and give them my address and phone number. i say ok. he says he'l phone me back in a minute. 5 minutes later. nothing. 10 minutes later. nothing. ben then phones and says the landlord is ringing him again. i phone the landlord. he shouts at me again for not answering. i tell him he shouldnt have tried to bloody ring ben then. he doesnt get it. i try to explain that ben works in the day and therefore its easier to phone me. he ignores me. he then talks me through every feature on the new oven. grill is the top door, oven is the bottom one. thanks for clarifying that mate. wouldnt have stood a chance otherwise. next, he tells me i need to ensure the delivery man changes some lead and fits it right. so im assuming he thinks i have a working knowledge of oven installation. i dont. then he says i need to ring him when the oven gets here cos its a brand new oven and he wants to check it. fair enough. i say i will do. he then says he will come tomorrow night. again thats ok with me. i confirm with him that i need to ring him at 6pm when the oven arrives and then he will come round 2morro. he says no, the oven people are ringing him when they leave and he will be round 2nite. make your mind up.


what an effort for a bloody oven. the way he was talking about how special the oven is you'd think he was giving me a kidney


Jamie


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