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Notes from the sofa

Regulars | By Raymond Briggs


The petty irritations of everyday life: 1. Imbeciles who, when putting a new toilet roll onto the holder on the bathroom wall, arrange it so the paper does not hang in the air at the front but is hung at the back, where it soon gets stuck to the wet bathroom wall! 2. The insane American habit of putting their address on the envelope and not on the letter! Nothing wrong with having it on the envelope but, for heaven’s sake, put it on the letter as well! Here we tend to take the letter out of its envelope, put it carefully away somewhere and chuck the envelope. A couple of weeks later, when we finally get round to replying, the address has long gone. 3. Idiots who leave text messages on my mobile phone with no date on them! I don’t look at my mobile every few seconds, as...


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