Did you hear about the Morgans?

Good evening followers. I went to the cinema last night with my secret follower! Now it has taken me a while to work out what the film was called. Until I checked online just now, I thought it was called 'Have you seen the Fosters?'. My secret follower told me it was called 'Meet the Fosters'. Both, as you can see from the title bar for this blog (which displays the correct name), totally incorrect. Anyway, despite my confusion, my secret follower had cleverly pre-ordered the tickets so fortunately we were able to get into the film without making hideous prats of ourselves in front of the ticket office staff. (For the chance to see a short but revealing description of how readily I can make myself look utterly stupid, read my previous blog.)

Anyway, it is my opinion that the title of the film is going to muddle lots of people. I know that I can get things very wrong, very easily, but my secret follower is normal and does not. She is a big fan of one of the main characters in the film and it was her idea to go and see this film in the first place-and she must have read the title when ordering the tickets online. Yet she still couldn't get the title right, and even after seeing the bloody film we weren't sure what it was called! It's because the title is too wordy-a little like me I think.

Now this blog isn't a dedicated film review site (clearly) so I won't go on too much. Needless to say I know anything about films-I probably only watch 10 films a year so I really don't have much of a clue, but it's a perfectly good film and worth a watch. I certainly would rather watch that than Avatar, which, having seen the trailer looked to be visually similar to the Cbeebies programme, Waybaloo, but (judging from what I've heard) with a less impressive script and an inferior plot.

Now to matters of telecommunication, yes my new mobile phone. 'Wow, you have it?' I hear you all gasp 'What's it like?'
No I don't have it. And it's not looking good for the rest of the week either. Now, I can't remember what I had said about my expectations for it's delivery, but having bought it on a next-day delivery late on a Saturday night, I was fully expecting the order to be processed on Monday, and to take delivery on Tuesday. I smelled a rat at 10.30 this morning, when I had heard nothing (how impatient of me) and phoned the company. My fears were confirmed when the nice young lady was unable to find my order details. There was nothing registered against my order number!!!!! Fighting back the tears, I 'yessed' and 'no-ed' to her while she explained to me that she would e-mail another department to get them to find it. ('Look for something blue!') At some point during the call, something was said which led me to believe that I would hear within a couple of hours, so I said goodbye to the operative, and tried to relax in front of my home phone, my mobile phone and my e-mail on my laptop, so that any attempt at communication would not be missed by myself.

By three o' clock, with a very numb-bum and pins and needles in my left foot, I decided that I ought to ring again in case they had mislaid my phone numbers and e-mail address, as they had done with my order. This operative was a little less friendly than the first and seemed not to sympathise with my predicament. I had a cunning proposal in mind which I felt would save an awful lot of hassle on their part, and time on mine. I recommended that the first order (that didn't seem to exist anyway) was cancelled, and I would then simply place a totally new one, thus guaranteeing the delivery of the phone for tomorrow. But no, apparently, that was not possible. At least not yet. I was told to give it a few days.....yes!- DAYS!!! If I had not heard in a few days, then perhaps I could then cancel the order and re-purchase!

So I don't have my phone yet. I even pointed out that the particular model was becoming a little hard to get hold of and that I was worried that by the time they found my order (where are they planning to look?) the phone would then be sold out. She didn't reassure me at all and I got the impression that all of this was just a chance I would have to take. Next day delivery my arse. I have e-mailed the company to re-suggest my cancellation plot but am scared to ring again in case they put a note on my file saying 'screw up this order in every way possible'. But there is no order....so maybe they already have......