NO more relationships with 'girls next door'!; - after TWO in the 'Priory Street Posse'!

conclusive paragraphs added at the end of the newly expanded
first part, with the old three papers now added in at the start in
the same ‘Verdana’ font as the rest of the book. Finally that
Monday I dug deep in my pocket, paid the 3 Mobile bill that was
due that week, and immediately went to the Internet café and
faxed it to T3 Direct. I had got the bank to make sure their
‘paid’ stamp was crystal clear this time around!
On Tuesday morning, the effect of that fax, and the one the
week before with the same bill unpaid, and above all the fact
that T3 Direct Returns Department were at last back at work
after taking the whole of Christmas off, at first seemed to have
done the trick. I signed for a parcel at the door which was
clearly from T3 Direct, and indeed turned out to contain a
brand new black Nokia Slide 6500 of the same model as before.
The big downer was there was no SIM card with it! – only a
letter saying ‘call 3 Mobile to obtain a SIM card’ which I
promptly did to find it cost £5 for a SIM card with the same
phone number, which would take ‘1-3 days’ by post! I had to
have one and so ordered one; being told the £5 would appear
on my next bill. So when Sarah from T3 Direct phoned, she
was surprised indeed that I had not been sent my own original
SIM Card by her Returns Department, when they sent the
phone. When I explained in tortured fashion that my dealings
with her company had cost me a princely £300 or so, not to
mention the mental distress probably matching that, she
suggested writing a letter of complaint. At first I told her it
would be too painful to write, but eventually the next day
Wednesday drafted 1½ pages of complaint, and faxed AND
posted it to them for good measure. Normally it takes them
about a week to reply, but I am not messing around – and am
going to see the local Citizens’ Advice Bureau tomorrow Monday
clutching all the paperwork!
Then that afternoon I had my first brainwave of 2009! I had
the book finished, and had finished with Book Promotion ltd last
night with just two sales under my belt in two months.
Although it remains just faintly possible that there are further
sales in a ‘6-8 week pipeline’ that Lulu had warned me of i.e. of
sales by the main Internet bookshops, that they are still due to
report only in due course, it is clear to me that this latest
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