Disaster or Inconvenience
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Mike Thompson - Published 16/07/2008
Being strong on filial duty I use my Thursday luncheon break to take my ageing (in flesh but not in mind or spirit) mother to pick up her pension and do some local supermarket shopping. This Thursday was slightly different in that there was no pension available from the Post Office as the ‘systems were down’, and apparently there was no indication as to when they would be ‘back up again’ – is it just me or is everybody starting to sound like a SysAdmin? Fortunately, mother and son had enough money availa…