When It All Goes A Bit Pete Tong

Why is it that when we decide to look at the question in next Sunday's evening meeting,  "What Can I do  When It All Goes Wrong?", I have a week when that is exactly what seems to be happening?

Here's the catalogue of errors (so far):

Sunday - I get a call while travelling on the ferry from Arran. The electrics are off and there is no internet access in church.

Monday - We can't logon to the administration account on the church computer. When we do get in, all files from the last two+ years have mysteriously vanished. "Surely there is a backup?", you say. " Of course.....there isn't!", I reply. IT backup now instituted.

Wednesday - I arrange to leave my mobile on so that if a sick friend needs company in hospital in the middle of the night, they can get hold of me. I switch my phone on when I get home on Tuesday night, but forget it is set to vibrate. Several unanswered calls and texts await me at 6am when I wake up. My masterplan failed and I feel miserable.

This was followed by me dropping my mobile on the new hard floor of the gents toilets at St Silas'. A smashed screen is the result. The phone still works, but I get little shards of glass on my fingers an face when I use it. It's insured though......er, no, it's not because I forgot to tell my bank that I'd changed it. Time for a new phone perhaps?

On the way home from a hospital visit, I found a driving licence and credit card on the grass, so, as a good citizen should, off I went to Partick Police Station to hand them in. I'd noticed a car with it's rear window smashed in in the car park of the hospital when I visited yesterday, and I'm sure the photo on the driver's licence was the same woman who stood by that car. The civilian staff member at the police station took forever to get round to me doing my civic duty. I guess the budget cuts are already hitting the police service.

That's it. The only solution is for me to bunker down for the rest of the week in the hope that nothing else can go wrong.

Comments

[Graham]

the moral of the story - don't practice what you're going to preach on.

[ryan]

Look on the bright side: the above must mean that it's statistically IMPOSSIBLE for something to go wrong in the sermon itself! :)

[Andrew T]

It would seem that you have been provided with plenty of material for a sermon on this topic!!!!

[ryan]

And you neglected your most frequent, and most grating, mistake : constantly saying that Nick is going to be made a 'Vicar'!!! (why not claim he's being elevated to the Cardinalate while you're at it!?) :)

[Bruce]

i hope things are looking up. and was sorry to hear about alan, my parents knew him so have let them know..