*** WARNING *** This Is A Cocktail Induced Rant

I am not happy. Again. In fact according to this blog when am I ever? Seriously I don't moan this much in person. People I know say I'm quite nice & very good natured .... Hmm I don't agree but on with the show as they say. This is what the cocktails (Pina Colada's with extra rum since you ask - I'm trying to re-create my wonderful holiday 2 months ago but it's not working!) have led me to rant about.

Bribes My wonderful workmates saw fit today to attempt to bribe me with a bottle of Becks into not writing a rant regarding the days events. Not a chance. If it had been Budweiser then yes, I may have considered it. But it wasn't. So I didn't. I HATE BECKS. Just so you guys know for future reference.

School Secretaries - see this rant isn't about you lot at all. The world doesn't revolve around you y'know. A very nice girl, named C called me to ask if she had booked two buses with us for next Tuesday. I said nope there's nothing in for you at all. That's fin, she said, It must'nt have been you that I booked them with. Bless her, she is so scatty it wouldn't be the first time she thought she'd booked our company's buses when she'd booked someone else. Luckily we don't take offence at our regular clients giving work to our rivals.

Two hours later she called back to say Yeah she did book a bus all the way back in July (notice the single & not plural as above) because she remembered I moaned at her for messing up the Diary when she'd originally ordered it for 31st Oct but then changed it to the 14th Nov.

Me moan??!! Where DID she get that idea from??

Anyhoo I went on to explain there was absolutely no record of her doing so as 1) all calls are recorded, 2) schools have to send faxes confirming what was said on the phone to prevent conversations such as this, 3) I would have booked the bus out for her. I simply don't forget such a major thing as that.

As it was, my boss E did a bit of jigging about and managed to conjure up a bus for her. Making it crystal clear along the way that I was in no way to blame for the headache he was now suffering thanks to C, as the hunt continues to find a driver for her...

A bus without a driver. Who'd have thunk it?

TJ