Booking badminton
Me: I'd like to book a badminton court for next thursday please.
Woman at Sports Centre: Sorry, I can't take any bookings until 9:00 AM.
Me: But it is 9:00.
Woman: My wall clock says it's 8:57 and I have to go by that.
Me: But there are spaces right? You say on your site that you can't book slots earlier than 9:00 AM the week before?
Woman: Oh yes, there's slots.
Me: Okay, I'll phone back in 3 minutes.
Five minutes later.
Me: Hello, I'd like to book a badminton court please.
Woman: Sorry, they're all booked.
Me: Oh fiddlesticks! Some enterprising chaps have got in during the last few seconds and managed to book the whole 8 courts. Ho hum, I guess I'll just have to be quicker next time. Cheerio!
/me hops into time machine and goes back to three minutes earlier
Me: I'd like to book a badminton court please.
Woman at Sports Centre: Sorry, I can't take any bookings until 9:00 AM.
Me: That's okay, I'll hold.
...
I swear that all happened. Except the stuff with the time machine. Oh, and I didn't say "fiddlesticks".
Woman at Sports Centre: Sorry, I can't take any bookings until 9:00 AM.
Me: But it is 9:00.
Woman: My wall clock says it's 8:57 and I have to go by that.
Me: But there are spaces right? You say on your site that you can't book slots earlier than 9:00 AM the week before?
Woman: Oh yes, there's slots.
Me: Okay, I'll phone back in 3 minutes.
Five minutes later.
Me: Hello, I'd like to book a badminton court please.
Woman: Sorry, they're all booked.
Me: Oh fiddlesticks! Some enterprising chaps have got in during the last few seconds and managed to book the whole 8 courts. Ho hum, I guess I'll just have to be quicker next time. Cheerio!
/me hops into time machine and goes back to three minutes earlier
Me: I'd like to book a badminton court please.
Woman at Sports Centre: Sorry, I can't take any bookings until 9:00 AM.
Me: That's okay, I'll hold.
...
I swear that all happened. Except the stuff with the time machine. Oh, and I didn't say "fiddlesticks".
Only....badminton.
That's....just wrong, in my opinion.
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