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Looking forward to failing successfully

Jack Dikian of Mosman had the pleasure of being “assisted by My Vodafone’s new resident AI chatbot, TOBi this morning. After I requested to speak to a person at least three times, I got the message ‘Internal error, task failed successfully’.”

Being exhausted after moving house, Jenny Stephenson of Wollongong went to the bottle shop for a bottle of red to go with the takeaway pizza. “Of course the corkscrew (C8) was nowhere to be found, so I went back to the bottle shop to buy one. While erratically telling my sorry story, I recall seeing the shop owner talking but was unable to hear anything. I bought the corkscrew and went ‘home’, only to realise they were trying to tell me the bottle had a screw top.”

Refuting any of that archaic chest-thumping nonsense that a man sleeps on the side closest to the door (C8) to ‘protect’ his wife, Sally James of Russell Lea has always believed “the side of the bed closest to the door belongs to the partner who gets up to feed the baby during the night.” Or, as Marjie Wiliamson of Blaxland says, “As a mum, I have always taken the side of the bed that enables me to move quickly, when half-asleep, if a child calls in the night.”

Warren Menteith of Bali also says some important research was not canvassed in the side of bed sleeping theories(C8). “Does left/right handedness play a part? Who is the go-to person and position for the light and electric blanket switches? On what side is the telephone or the remote control? And the most important question: How do you handle a centre sleeper?“

“Heavens! Jo Rainbow only has a drawer (C8)?” exclaims Peter Wotton of Pyrmont. “We had a ‘Mr Maker’ cupboard full of cardboard, boxes, glue, crayons, sticky tape, pencils and scissors for the multitude of making projects by the grandchildren. A drawer would hold only a fraction of the needed treasures.”

When Clive Fricker of Wooloowin (Qld) was doing basic training in the British Army, he recalls “after a few weeks we were allowed out of barracks on a Saturday evening and told to be back by 2359 hours (C8). When someone asked the sergeant why 2359 not midnight the reply was it gives you a minute to say your prayers before the next day arrives.”

Column8@smh.com.au

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