So, there's this seriously cute corset bag that I won the bid on at Ebay, BUT when I get to the Post Office to do a frickin' money order, they tell me that they don't DO money orders in GB Pounds. That's just great, I say. So then the man, trying to be helpful but just infuriating me further, suggests a Western Union Money transfer. I grit my teeth and agree, resisting the urge to have a fit at the mention of an AUD$20 fee to send the money over. It gets done, he tells me it's fine and I leave the post office in a hurry to get to work, convinced that I will be late.

I get an email two days later. "I've tried every avenue, but cannot recover your payment. Perhaps you could send cash or cheque instead?" Fighting back a seriously heavy duty temper-tantrum, I accept this with dignity and resolve to go to the post office to recover my money so I can send it off to her.

Now the way that I see it [and from what Mother said] I should have been able to waltz into any post office and get my money back, provided I met the provisions to be getting my money back. WELL THAT WASN'T THE CASE. I have to go back to the same post office that I got the damn thing at, even though they're all connected on the same computer network. And of course, it was too late to be going there today so now I have to go through the whole thing again tomorrow.

It better be a damn good bag, I can tell you that much.