This cautionary tale about a late takeaway curry went viral because it had a lesson for us all
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Just before leaving I thought I’d better double check my bank statement to make sure I got the amounts right. No mistake there. But… hold on. That’s odd. The website had two slightly different addresses recorded on the statement.
— MꙬse Allain (@MooseAllain) April 18, 2018
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The first one, yes, was curriesonline. But the second…
Oh god. The deep shame descended on me, a cold sweat of what I’d just done.
The second one was currysonline.
— MꙬse Allain (@MooseAllain) April 18, 2018
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And with that it came back to me that the reason we’d had the curry was because our cooker had packed up. Two days later I’d gone to Currys and bought a replacement.
— MꙬse Allain (@MooseAllain) April 18, 2018
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The moral of the story is, as I’m sure you’ll all agree: don’t be a fucking idiot.
— MꙬse Allain (@MooseAllain) April 18, 2018
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I feel that sharing this story with you is my penance. I can’t get over how lucky I was that no one answered the phone. They would have denied everything and I would have lost my shit.
— MꙬse Allain (@MooseAllain) April 18, 2018
And it turned out lots of other people had done something similar.
As an IT consultant I phoned Virginmedia fuming their new wireless router stopped working after one day. As I was telling them what I did for a job, not to patronise me by saying turn it on and off, I realised I’d pressed the power button when I’d moved it.
— Richie P (@_RichieP_) April 18, 2018
Fabulous! Thank goodness you double checked. I’ll forever wish I’d double checked the worrisome red mark on my baby son’s head before rushing him into the doctors.
The doctor rubbed it off.It was ketchup.
Bye.— Rachel (@raquelster69) April 18, 2018
I once took a car back to the garage and complained the radio they had just fixed was now only playing through one speaker. The mechanic looked at me, smirked and then leant into the car and moved the balance back to the centre.
— Fahan (Fawn) (@fahanwhite) April 18, 2018
I was on my way to the GP about a worrying new mole which had suddenly appeared on the back of my leg before I realised I’d been eating a choc ice while wearing shorts….
— David armstrong (@dearvid1980) April 18, 2018
Had a customer complain we had taken out £39 per month from his account, ranting and angry. It would have been impossible for this to happen so I asked to his bank statement, he sent it and had great joy pointing out it was a website for “mature dating” and nothing to do with us.
— Stupid Ste (@StupidSte) April 18, 2018
was convinced I had a tumour on my leg so OF COURSE before doing anything else I called everyone I know and booked a GPs appt….. was a bloody lentil that I’d somehow got in my tights
— Poppy (@PoppyCocktails) April 18, 2018
Did you check for a pulse?
— Darren Geraghty (@GeraghtyDarren) April 18, 2018
