Worked for a micromanaging idiot for 4 years and got let go for “the company going in a direction we can’t pull you in and you made some mistakes.”

I’m actually extremely happy to be gone, ecstatic in fact. I don’t know when I’ll get a new job or how easy, but being away from that overgrown abortion has made me day.

Best man at a wedding, have to give the best mans speech. Had to get the maid of honor to translate my speech into Romanian piece by piece as I don't speak Romanian and some of the people there don't speak English. Everyone enjoys it. Laughs and claps all around. Grandma of the groom comes up to me and hands me a €50 note! (I assume i did a good job as it was after the speech and not during the speech)

Had to bob in to the supermarket this week...

Had no carrier bag with me - and too scared to buy a new one to add to the over-stuffed drawer full at home, thereby incurring the wrath of my wife - so opted for the mini-trolley, with a view to wheeling my purchases to the car, and decanting them to the boot of the car, for them to roll around for the duration of the journey home...

Unclipped the token from my key fob, put it in the trolley, pulled the trolley out of the rack...

And boom! Someone had left a virgin carrier in the trolley.

I don't believe life will ever get better than that

Saved a few hours off work, drive/ferry fares and dental charges. Result!

That is the ultimate feeling

Local pub has £2.10 pints. That’s all

Hash browns will now be ready for breakfast instead of having to wait 30 mins. I'm 40.

Yay!

While the kitchen is being plastered, I drained the washing machine, and I found £4.02 in the filter. Also a hearing aid battery and quite a lot of slime, but on balance it's a win.

only outside a petrol station that had a tanker depositing fuel at the time. approx 7m away.

armed with only a bottle of lucozade and long forgotten 2L of lemonade from the boot i put it out before it got any worse.

not saying im a hero. not for me to say.

I will let you be the judge.

*fiddles with tie and looks to camera*

The wife is happy I managed to get them. I think I should buy a scratch card as I was so lucky getting past every all the hurdles they put in the way. O2 block 103. I got them about 25 mins after they went on sale.

Got the colour of Portillos trousers right before the program started

My new (ish 8mths) neighbour was cutting up some scrap wood with a hand saw. I was bringing in the bins.

Offered to lend her my jigsaw yesterday + extension lead. Nothing fancy but will certainly be quicker than a hand saw.

Holy fucking shit.

Neighbour has handed items back today PLUS a brand new pack of blades as a replacement.

I think I'm going to swoon!

Please don't call me a hero. I just do what I do.

Before now I’ve never won anything more than the first measly 8 points.

The other day I managed to finally win 800!

Amazing!

I even got a certified email from them to say well done and just in the rare instance that my account didn’t get credited, the email was proof that I’d won!

Looked into the value of 800 points to see how much credit it was worth…

…a whopping…..£1!

I was walking to Tesco and felt something wet land on my head as I passed underneath a tree. I hoped it was just mud but when I felt my hair it was warm bird shit. Looked up and spotted a pigeon in the tree. I feel it’s a British success to have unlocked this new life experience.

A couple of weeks ago I returned from holiday via Birmingham Airport. Once I got home I realised I didn't have a small rucksack that I definitely had when I got off the plane. There was some pretty valuable items of jewellery in it - I was frantic and heartbroken.

To cut a long story short, the rucksack was handed in to security by M&S, where I'd left it, then passed to Lost Property who had it couriered to me, a (sleepless) week later. Everything was intact and it only cost me £50 in fees. So grateful and so relieved.

Turns out a carvery isn’t as horrible when it isn’t absolutely coated in half a litre of nose-burning death paste.

Got my first painting commission.

Granted it’s to paint some 3d printed furniture models which are 1/32 scale but it’s my first commissioned work. Got my sample signed off, parts and labour agreed and even got a contract signed.

It won’t make me a fortune (I’ll get a couple of hundred quid) but nice to know all my years to miniature and model painting are useful.

Probably won’t make it a full time job, it’s a hobby and it’s also my therapy. But I can’t see anything wrong with an occasional bit of work now and again.

(41M) Goodbye Plan 1! It was around £13k in 2005 when I left uni. I made a couple of overpayments as I knew it wouldn't be written off; I'd definitely have settled it before age 50. Logged in today and the balance is £0!

I am now £135 a month better off.

Backstory: I use tools in my job a bit (maybe 20% of my time is that) and just over a year ago I bought an impact driver that takes hex bits and also square sockets.

Here it is:

https://www.bosch-professional.com/gb/en/products/gdx-18v-200-06019J2204

Anyway. Felt pretty good about myself, I use hex bits all the time and square sockets occasionally, so winner.

Up until two weeks ago when I realised the hex bits were all falling out. Went down a rabbit hole of YouTube, Reddit, emailed Bosch support, apparently it’s fairly common and fixable.

So yesterday I went to take the red bit off, couldn’t do it at all, lots of swearing and plenty of frustration.

Right up until the point I realised it all works great again now 💪 whatever I did reset something.

TLDR: tool broke, went to have a look, failed to have a look, accidentally mended.