I'm not going to say it was my fault or their fault, it's a lot of people fucking up or not knowing they could fuck up and now I have to wait and just keep paying out of pocket until it's resolved.

Yes, it's a huge amount of stress that I'm attempting to minimise to cope with it and by focusing on mum coming home tomorrow,

She, however, is spitting fucking chips on my behalf.

Oh I can only imagine how upset she is about this.

her text when I told her was... nigh incomprehensible with swearing?

That sounds about right. I'm with her on this

They say they've been adjusting for inflation but I doubt they have been adjusting enough

Like, they'll go "Oh, it increases one dollar per visit a year" and that is not at all the fucking case.

I'm so sorry. Infuriating