some days are stone

Today I rang my super fund just to see how my super was progressing.  "Our operator is busy at the moment". - that didn't sound good a singular operator - "your call has been placed in a queue  please hold.  You are no.3 in the queue".   Why aren't I surprised  It doesn't seem to matter what company you call now days you are forced to listen to their spiel about how you can visit them online at http://www.wecan'tbebotheredtalkingtoyou/ and then you are placed in a queue.  I accepted my fate and pulled out my book.  I was then surprised a couple of minutes later when the operator spoke to me.  I glanced at the wall clock.  It hasn't been 10 minutes yet, boy these guys must be having a slow day.  "I'm sorry" the operator told me.  "Our fire alarm has just gone off and we have to evacuate the building, so rather than have you hold on for however long it is going to take, do you mind calling us back in about half an hour."  It was then that I could hear the fire alarms going off in the background.   He seemed very calm about it all and I was left wondering if the fire alarms were a regular occurrence.
As I hung up the phone it was then I noticed one of the young one timidly making their way out into the sunshine.  As he was about to turn the knob on the front door I collared him.  Before you go fill in your section on the e-census.  I need to get it sent in today.  After much grumblings and a bit of coercement from me and a promise that it would only take 5 minutes (ha ha) he sat down at the computer.   At question 26 he looked up with obvious pain in his eyes.   I reassured him he was nearly finished. (he will never believe a word I say again).  Several questions later and the computer froze and told me it was not responding.  After reloading the census home page and trying to get back to the form I was told to try again in 30 minutes.  I heard the front door close, I looked around, the computer chair was empty and my young one had fled.