Foolishly I was drawn into a political conversation at 3.30am this morning.
I should have known better,as I hadn't even downed my first coffee of the day but my colleague, who is politically very active, pushed a button on a subject I feel passionately about.
My temper started to flare when I was told in no uncertain terms ( and rather patronisingly I thought) that I was wrong and that my colleague was right because he had read extensively on the matter.
Luckily for all I changed the subject before things got out of hand
My second upset of the day came when Albert followed our walk up the lane which necessitated me slowing down a speeding car in order for him to exit into the sheep field.
The driver wasn't best pleased with me and impatiently revved his engine as I stood there. Luckily Winnie was standing directly in front of the car like Buddha so he couldn't have pulled past me even if he had wanted to, so in the time it took Albert to reach the field pull in , I had already been called an
" f€#king animal freak" by the driver , something I replied to with my best gay wave.
What's wrong with people ? I thought.
A statement I repeated to myself just a hour or so later when I bumped into a nurse friend of mine in the book row of Tescos. We chatted for an age before an untidy Irish woman yelled at both of us for being in her way"
Get out of my way! " she snapped angrily "
look at you chatting up that girl and laughing! It's a bloody supermarket not a social club, you shop here not talk!"
Obviously this had been brewing for a while, and me calling her
" a crabby old cow" didn't really help matters greatly, although her surprise at the statement was some vindication for the spat.
As luck would have it I spied the same woman as I stood at the check out of Boots-The Chemist a half hour later.
" I can't believe that you called me an old cow, you awful man!!!!" she started up again
I almost went for my usual "
Cheap Shoes" put down , but the woman was wearing old lady booties so instead I replied with and equally loud
"In fact I called you a CRABBY old cow if you are going to quote me get it right" much to the surprise of the other women in the queue.
" I'm surrounded by idiots" I said to no one in particular when I handed over my dehumidifier tablets to be scanned
"
Welcome to the world of retail" said the cashier wearily