Frustrated But Comic(al)

Arriving at work and leaving my phone on the car seat started the day off badly - and then it declined.
My phone was delivered to Newquay but while I was out of contact I had my duty changed so that I finished an hour later - This was to have repercussions.
I eventually left work giving myself forty minutes to travel twenty miles, change and travel another four miles - didn't happen.
So I walked in on Johnny Cowling's act ten minutes after it started and received "both barrels", initially for around five minutes but on and off for an hour or so.