Why is everything so difficult these days?
Updating your myGov or any other government department account online is always a mission.
The ATO, health department, trying to make a complaint to Qantas are all online and designed to be difficult. Well, that’s how it appears to me.
Take Old Mate.
When she has anything go wrong with something online or she is trying to make a payment, wow! Look out.
She starts making these funny little breathing noises, something similar to hyperventilating.
It’s quite scary.
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I have learnt two things when this happens: don’t try and help (even if asked) and don’t make eye contact. Both move me closer to being murdered and buried in the backyard.
I mention this because, last week, something way past scary happened.
A little background … we have two TVs and never should we touch each other’s, which is her rule not mine.
She watches hers mostly at night with headphones on, which is bliss for both of us.
And, of course, the past few weeks we’ve been up until 2am watching the Olympics and loving it.
The other night, when we wanted to watch a dear family friend compete, we found out about five minutes beforehand that the race was on 9Now.
I tried to find it on her TV at her request and pushed the wrong button. I lost all free-to-air channels and couldn’t get them back.
Old Mate is telling me what to do and my face was getting redder and redder.
My blood pressure, I reckon, was about 200 over 100 and to say I was stressed was an understatement.
I could find everything I didn’t need: Netflix, internet statements, terms and conditions, input data but no bloody TV!
Old Mate was really cracking up, giving me a running commentary on how red my face was and what she will be like if she doesn’t have a TV.
I have to say, I don’t scare easily – that’s why I look like I look – but I was terrified.
Missing the race someone has trained for, for three years, was bad enough but Old Mate with no TV was a total disaster for yours truly on so many fronts.
As they say, “There by the grace of God go I” and I was preparing to meet my maker when all of a sudden I pushed a button and it came back on.
Amen to that.
Ashley Robinson is chairman of the Sunshine Coast Falcons and Sunshine Coast Thunder Netball, and a lifetime Sunshine Coast resident.
