yA<\/a> I’m just trying to gather my thoughts.’)<\/p>\nMy worst experience with delivery drivers came just before Christmas. I’d ordered a book on gardens as a gift, knowing it would easily fit through my letterbox.<\/p>\n
But no.I returned home to a card that stated it had been delivered to a DIY shop in town. I drove to the shop, melting ice caps along the way. I told the man inside that him being a delivery hub defeated the whole object of online shopping.<\/p>\n
\u2018I might just have well driven to a bookshop and cut you out of the equation entirely!’ I told him, as he fumbled through hundreds of packages with all the speed of a dead snail.<\/p>\n
\u2018I’m just a cog,’ he told me, caring not one jot.(It’s the indifference that really riles me.)<\/p>\n
Being deaf, I misheard him. \u2018At last! Some accountability! Thank you! You are, indeed, a c**k!’<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, I can no longer buy a Phillips screwdriver within a 25-mile radius of my home.Am I going to have to order one on Amazon?<\/p>\n
Cyber-flashing? All I get is OAP abuse<\/p>\n
I watched, fascinated, Asking For It?, the Emily Atack documentary about cyber-flashing on BBC1 last week.<\/p>\n
She gets hundreds of unsolicited pics of male genitalia sent to her every day.All I’ve received in the past few weeks is a letter (remember those?) from George, who is 70. I don’t believe he has a smartphone.<\/p>\n
\u2018Dear Liz. I enjoy your writing, but you seem to have been under more sheets than the Ku Klux Klan. You also have the sort of face a dog wouldn’t lick.’<\/p>\n
I wish, darling George.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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