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[girlofprey]

Well, I got up this morning, in the cold. Went to work, in the snow. My manager told me I could go early again tonight, for the 6 o'clock train, and I said I'd need to leave a little earlier than I did before, but he said it was fine. Doing that meant I had to tell the postroom woman that she'd have to come out for the last courier of the day, if they didn't get here before I had to go. She came out about 5 minutes earlier than I'd said and told me I could just get off. I was literally going to bolt the revolving doors, when we saw a rough-looking guy on crutches coming straight across the car park towards us, and we realised it was a homeless guy that lives in the area, and has been in a couple of times in the last few weeks asking if he could use our phone to call people. I didn't want to just lock him out, so I went to tell him we were closing up, and he said Simon on the Streets (a Leeds organisation, I assume) were supposed to be picking up him and his friends, but they'd been waiting an hour, so he just wondered if he could come in and make a quick call. I felt like I really had to go at that time, to not be waiting another hour for the train, so I told him I really had to go and couldn't open reception back up. He only wanted to check in on his pick-up, it's not like he was asking me to help him get into a shelter or something, but it still made me feel awful, given the weather. Anyway, he turned around to go to the other building we share a car park with, and their lights were on and it looked like they were still open, so hopefully he got to make his call there, and got his pick-up and got in somewhere. But still. Didn't feel great.

Then I got home and found that the boiler indeed hadn't been fixed, as my dad had texted me earlier (can never be sure if he's joking), and he also told me the cat had weed on the shoelaces of my beloved trainers again, and I don't know what exactly happened with the dog, but he crawled into my lap after going out in the garden for a bit, and I ended up with a disgusting smelling wet patch on my trousers, and I had to change them. And then my internet wasn't working just now, so I just had to run up and down the stairs trying to re-link my ethernet connection. So not a great day so far.

But my dad did buy me a heater for my bedroom, which was lovely. And it is the weekend. And I did get my internet working again super quickly. So that's pretty good.

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[breyzyyin]

I can totally understand how having to turn the homeless guy away made you feel awful, but you made the right call for your situation. Hopefully he understood and he could get what he needed from the other building.

~I hope the boiler got fixed, but I'm glad your internet is up and running again and that you have a heater for your room. Stay safe and warm all weekend! ♥