Author: carlosfandango

Wanting to play your new CD/DVD but being frustrated by the unnecessary and seamless cellophane packaging. Guaranteed to break teeth or require scissors that scratch the case.

The fruitless jab-jabbing of your card in an ATM machine that is still chirpily displaying “thank you for using” long after the last customer has gone

Words that you regularly mis-type, causing loss of concentration as you cursor back to fix them

eg, incerase for increase or filed for field

A biscuit that breaks off during dunking and sinks to a wet, sugary grave of tea

The clock you don’t know how to adjust so stays wrong by one hour until springtime

The crumpled barcode on a plastic packet that the cashier has to grumpily type in manually

The little sticky-out bit inside your cheek due to accidentally, and painfully, biting yourself

The toothpaste that falls into the sink when you knock the brush over while trying to put the cap back on

The hard to suppress excitement of knowing you have a fantastic seven letter word ready for your next turn at Scrabble.

It’s bittersweet because there’s there’s always the danger that that your opponent will spoil it by inadvertently going there