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QUOT: (kwot) Noun and collective noun.

A commonplace occurrence – any feature or characteristic of ordinary life which is ever present or predictable in given circumstances – a generalisation to this effect. From ‘QUOTIDIAN’ meaning ‘everyday’ or ‘ordinary’

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In corporate brochures and websites your particular issue never being covered in the ‘Most frequently asked questions’ section .

Always getting the wobbly table in a restaurant

Forever hearing physicists saying they're on the brink of discovering the origins of the universe

In every pub there always being a regular customer known for never buying his round

There always being a house in every neighbourhood which goes overboard on its Christmas lights

Public services always feeling obliged to write mission statements on their vehicles

Always being asked 'How did you hear about us?' at the last nail-biting stage of a long drawn-out website transaction

Never being able to get into the packaging of CD or DVD cases

Lay-by litter bins always being full to overflowing

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Pressing the 'Next Page' keypad on an e-reader or Kindle before finishing the page you're on

When sleeping on your own in a hotel room keeping the television on through the night to keep ghosts and spooky things away

Recent hospital patients always insisting on showing you their operation scars

Always getting two or three supermarket baskets from the stack when you only want one

Medical science always claiming to be ‘on the verge of a breakthrough’

School dinners always smelling of boiled cabbage

Cyclists always being spindly-thin

Electronic toys in children’s playrooms always going off spontaneously in the middle of the night

Politicians on radio and television interviews always saying they’re in it because they want to ‘ to make a difference’ and ‘ to put something back into society’

Cold-call telesales people always saying “I’m not trying to sell you anything”

"...But if I WAS trying to sell you something what would you like it to be?"

All Royal Navy warships always being named after heroes or heroic qualities

Toupees, wigs and hairpieces never being the same colour as the wearer’s remaining hair

Sending a man shopping and him always coming home with the wrong kind of pasta

Always feeling the symptoms of any disease you happen to read about

All eminent spiritual counsellors , mystics and philosophers always come from the East

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