Yesterday was an angry day! For no reason in particular I was in a bad mood and whoa betide ANYONE who got in my way.
I managed to keep my mood under wraps until we (Little Fink, me and Mr Fink) went to the pictures to see The Golden Compass (top film, I loved it), during the trailers 5, 12 year old girls shouted, chattered, commented and giggled. Then they started a 'hilarious' game of see who can fold up the seat, sit on the top and slam down onto it the hardest. At this time I moved into the row in front, tutting in true British fashion. (My friend used to say, "There'll be an outcry, the country will go - "Tut") The lights came up in preparation for the film, the interval was longer than usual and one of the girls turned to her friends and said, "You don't think it's because of us do you?" I turned pointedly to them and for the first time in my life found the right words at the right time...said in a loud voice, "YOU DON'T THINK?". They slunk?/slinked?/slank? down into their seats and were quiet for the rest of the evening.
PART II
After the pictures I went swimming (my Wednesday ritual). As I entered the sports centre there was a note pinned to the front desk, "No hot water in the building" (no change there then) I joked with the staff, "I hope the pool is warm and those flipping SCUBA divers don't leave the door open while they put their gear away, like usual". Anyway, I had a bit of a swim, the SCUBA divers started to pack up their gear, took it to the door that leads straight out to the car park and LEFT THE DOOR OPEN while they loaded 20 boxes of gear into the freezing cold night. The cold air caused steam to rise off the pool water like a swamp. I said to my swim buddy, "I'm really angry" I got out of the pool. I found my receipt. I wrapped my towel round me, stormed out of the pool area, through the changing room, through the foyer and up to the front desk. "I want a refund" I said and slapped (for I was wringing wet) my receipt on the desk. I described the selfishness and obtuseness?/obtusecity? of the SCUBA divers and the nice lady gave me my money back saying, "Don't catch cold!".
One bright light in this day of red mist - I tried the showers and they were piping hot. JACKPOT!!!
