Today, I will start from the end of the day, and go retrospectively towards the beginning. :-)

In the evening, there was a colossal, monumental, enormous traffic jam. I mean, it was really bad this evening, even compared to the other days. Instead of getting in the bus on my usual station, I walked a bit, and actually was able to overtake approx. 8 buses stuck in the traffic. (Then I thought I've had enough of that, overtaking a huge traffic jam is not the most beautiful walk in the world, However, I think that if I'd walked, I'd have been at home earlier than by bus. (But it's 6 miles, and I am lazy.)) Anyway, when I finally chose a bus, I went to the upper deck - a mistake, because I got sick there. :-( I hate buses.

Before that, I had a very funny day in the office.

I explained to my boss that today (28 October) is our Czech national day, an anniversary of establishment of Czechoslovakia. (Czechoslovakia is the state that we consider our predecessor state and in fact the first free Czech (and Slovak) state in about 300 years. So it's still pretty important, at least in theory.) I also explained to him that no one in Czech Republic celebrates 11 November (Armistice day) in any way, and 90% people do not even know why the day is important. This is because at the time the peace accords were signed, we were no longer interested in the war, we had our state, we were finally on our own and not part of Austria-Hungaria, and we had a lot of other things to do.
(Sorry my Czech friends to explain you the obvious!)

We also had a very interesting discussion about certain acts which by law have to take place before certain other acts. Well, so I asked my boss whether there is a way to 'repair' this problem, especially in the most unfortunate situation that these acts are carried out in wrong order.
No, you cannot repair that, the first thing must be effective at the time the second thing happen, was the reply.
Then I asked, and how about signing the appropriate agreement later, but just writing a date which is earlier? People in the Czech Republic do this all the time! Every time they miss the deadline, they just sign an agreement and backdate! (Disclaimer: I never do this, and I strongly disagree with any such practices... however, people in my country do that, and that's that.)
At first, my boss did not understand. Not at all; he just repeated that no, there is no way to repair this, the time limit is just gone, and the whole thing is invalid, because the agreement is signed late and that's that.
I asked whether the authorities would accept an agreement that is signed before the relevant act but filed later.
Yes, that would be accepted.
So I explained once again that there is a little cheat: the agreement is signed after, but made look like it was signed before the relevant date, because instead of the date you signed, you put another, earlier date.
But that's fraudulent behaviour, replied my boss, after he finally understood the (apparently horrendous) concept.
Yes, indeed. Well, I tried to explain to him that Czech people (and I dare to say that Eastern people in general) do not really see this as a fraud: as long as you are only cheating the authorities, it does not even count, it's not a real cheat!
No, this is not how it works in the UK, as my boss explained to me. We as a company never do such things, ever. We never even think about that. Because it's dishonest, fraudulent, and very bad.
Yes it is, I agreed, but people nevertheless do it, because they find it very practical. That's the East: people just do things like this, and they do not consider them bad or whatever, because that's how life goes, you've just sort of established what everyone wished anyway, so where's the point.
No, we ever do this in the UK. It's fraudulent behaviour, and we must not engage in any such activities.
I personally like this very much, this 100% pure and honest attitude, and in fact the constant cheating is one of the (main) reasons I've left my country, but this 'cultural difference' (as my boss put it) it just so funny! And, well, I think that the mere fact that it took me, like, 5 min to explain the whole concept to him, shows that these UK people are really honest, and straight lot.

In connection with the above described, I tried to explain to my boss the meaning of the Czech saying 'vlk se nažral a koza zůstala celá', which roughly translates as 'the wolf is fed while the goat is alive and well'. In the Czech Republic, this applies to the official acts in particular: authorities usually want you to do silly things, so you give up in small details (wolf is fed), but you try to keep the main points in exactly your way (the goad is ok).
My boss laughed very much.

During the day (and actually also yesterday) I noticed that my brain started to act funny. Usually, I speak good English, fluent, with no delays, gaps or funny difficulties. Well, now my brain started to cause trouble, and sometimes takes up to 1 sec to supply my mouth with an appropriate word. Which is annoying! I don't know why this is happening, but I don't like it. Brain, can you just stop it, and start speaking normally, as usual? Please?

During the morning, I went to HSBC, and now I have a UK bank account! There was a very nice lady who explained me things (I had to set, like, million of passwords and security questions, 60% of which I've forgotten already), and I got a small token which looks like toy calculator to get into my internet banking. But hey, I do have an account now!
Yaaaay! I am like a real British person now, I have NIN, a bank account, a real address, a monthly bus ticket, everything.

Before that, I've missed three buses in the morning, and had to wait for 10 min. Good start of the day!