The first scanner fell out of the holder on the trolley (I only managed to scan the fruit that I had picked up) it only fell a few inches into the child seat and went blank! So at 10 am when the store officially opened (the store opens for browsing at 9.30 am) I went to the customer service desk told the lady what happened and got my second scanner.
I then tried to scan some sweetener powder and after a couple of minutes the scanner came up that it couldnt find DCHP (I think it basically means that the scanner cant access the barcode database) so off I went back to the customer service desk told the same lady what happened and got my third scanner and hey presto I could scan the rest of my shopping and carried on.
I was glad that I was doing the shopping on my own as James would have thought that Sainsbury's were giving us dodgy scanners just to wind him up!
Those of you who are interested in knowing if I got to the packets of two custard tarts before the not so phantom castard tart napper...
this picture will tell you all you need to know :o(
So what did I get myself instead...
I got some individual bread and butter puddings and very nice the one I had last night was too ;o).
This morning I tried to buy an annual ticket from Chelmsford to London Liverpool Street to start on Friday. Since my annual ticket expired in November last year I have been buying monthly tickets until the move to London as I didnt really want to faff about buying tickets each month from Romford to Liverpool Street (plus it would have worked out more expensive too). So, I went to the station armed with my photocard and cheque to buy the said ticket.
I was told that it was too early to buy my annual ticket becasue there wasnt any coninuity with the tickets, I told her there was because I had a monthly ticket expiring on Thursday and I wanted a ticket from Friday and that you could renew your ticket upto a week in advance (I know my stuff you know). She then told me that there wasnt any continuity because the ticket I had was monthly and I wanted annual and the destination station was different! The lady then said I cant buy my ticket until Thursday at the earliest :o(. Im pleased to say I didnt explode but just said thanks and walked off.
Im now really peed of with nxea and have e-mailed them to complain I knew it was no use "going off on one" with the lady serving me as it would have given her a bad day and it wouldnt have done any good either.
Luckily Romford station is only a five minute walk from where I work so I will try and get the ticket Thursday lunchtime. This is not what I wanted to do as its bad enough having to battle through the Mums with pushchairs and the bloody old people without having to queue up and get my ticket too. At least its preffable to having to get the ticket on Friday morning or Thursday evening. Hmmm thinking about it I might get it Thursday morning at Romford before I get into work (I think thats my best idea yet).
The packing crates arrive on Monday so the end of this week I will be packing stuff (when we moved out to Romford 18 months ago, luckily I was on holiday so came into the new office with everything unpacked).
On Friday it was my colleagues bithday and got invited upto London for his Birthday lunch, I had a cumberland sausage ciabatta, Im not sure if I had one portion or 2 (if it was 2 they were pretty small and if it was one it was pretty big). To make up for the big lunch all I had for my dinner that night was an Innocent Veg Pot.
When I weighed myself this morning I was convinced I would have put on a little weight and was well chuffed that I had lost the 200 grammes I put on last week.
At least I now know I can have the occassional nice lunch although saying that I wouldnt have let the odd weight gain put me off ;o)
