Life is riddled with a procession of minor impediments

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

My 10 year old eldest has logged on to my Xbox account and spent £10 on coins for Plants v Zombies.

Not only has he had a bollocking, but the last laugh is the coins are locked to my account!

Still, the impediment is that I have to redo all the security settings and passwords.

[The Legendary Shark]

Abscess in mouth finally burst. Eeurgh.
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Like a scene from the Exorcist but relief, relief, relief!

[Zenith 666]

Get to a dentist as soon as possible shark.You don't want it returning.

[Dandontdare]

My 10 year old eldest has logged on to my Xbox account and spent £10 on coins for Plants v Zombies.

Not only has he had a bollocking, but the last laugh is the coins are locked to my account!

Still, the impediment is that I have to redo all the security settings and passwords.

My friend's seven year old spent nearly a grand on extras for some dragon-breeding game without realising he was spending real money (he claimed!) - it took several very irate calls from his mum before they agreed to refund most of it.

[The Legendary Shark]

Appointment already booked for Tuesday.

[Zenith 666]

Glad to hear you've finally got relief.

[Theblazeuk]

Dying Light turns out to be only for 64 bit systems.

I don't have a quad-core system and it seems a motherboard update will make my main storage drives, my new RAM and my existing CPU defunct. So next upgrade will be Motherboard+CPU+RAM... £200+ from a rough estimate probably.... and then it'll be trying to either use a (seemingly unrewarding) IDE->Sata adapter or getting another hard drive.

Bah. Guess I really am running to the end of my system, graphic card and SSD would be the only things that carry on through.

[Dandontdare]

my wallet's falling to pieces and I somehow lost the photocard section of my travel pass. This meant I had to trek into Eccles on my day off to get a replacement. No biggie, mission accomplished ... but somewhere on route, the stupid bastard thing has managed to lose my debit card, driving license and library card.

[The Legendary Shark]

Lose...? Yes, lose...
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*Screeches away in a showroom-new BMW laden down with library-stamped graphic novels*

[JamesC]

Trying to sell my flat and buy a house. I'm navigating a system that seems to benefit no one but estate agents and the more I get involved in it the more it feels like playing poker over the telephone.
There must be a better way!

[Richmond Clements]

Trying to sell my flat and buy a house. I'm navigating a system that seems to benefit no one but estate agents and the more I get involved in it the more it feels like playing poker over the telephone.
There must be a better way!

http://www.moneyobserver.com/how-to-invest/10-steps-to-selling-your-home-without-estate-agent

[Hawkmumbler]

Ack! That isn't what I wanted to hear! I'm in the prosess of moveing out myself and i'mlooking at terrace properties tomorrow.

[JamesC]

Trying to sell my flat and buy a house. I'm navigating a system that seems to benefit no one but estate agents and the more I get involved in it the more it feels like playing poker over the telephone.
There must be a better way!

http://www.moneyobserver.com/how-to-invest/10-steps-to-selling-your-home-without-estate-agent

I did consider this after reading a similar article but I bottled it. I find the whole thing pretty scary to be honest!
I think the Scottish anti-gazumping rules are something we could definitely learn from this side of the border.

[Professor Bear]

£350 quid to have someone else do all the estate agent-y stuff sounds like a bargain to me.
I had to physically pry the keys to my flat from the estate agent's hands when I moved in, saying he needed to do more stuff, even though I had walked directly from my solicitor's office to the estate agent's after being told it was done and dusted (and that if I didn't walk out of the place with keys to call the cops).  I asked my solicitor why the estate agent wouldn't part with the keys and was told he was "probably had an angle to get more money out of someone."

[Theblazeuk]

Parasites.