Well that was today then. It was one of those where suddenly! Nothing happened!! I guess half of it was my fault because I just couldn’t be arsed to do much work today. This is not because I am slovenly or anything oh no, this is because I have spent the last 3 days working my butt off to meet some deadlines and now I am just… well… done! It does madden me though that half of the people in my office can spend up to 4 hours writing a single e-mail and these are the same ones that walk past my desk and see me doing not a lot and just have to make a crack about it.
It is nice however to have a partner in crime, I would call him a kindred spirit but I am a man, we don’t say stuff like that!! I won’t mention his name just in case anyone he knows ever finds this but he is a great guy. Actually he went up in my estimations even more today because in the middle of a spectacularly busy moment of nothing happening he sidled over to my desk and made the best suggestion I have heard all week. “Bacon buttie down the market??” Were the precise words he used. So yes there we were at a time that was not even anywhere near an allotted break time down the market eating a bacon and egg sarnie a piece and I must say it was rather pleasant. We managed to right all the wrongs in the world, decided that yes indeed cherries are better than melon and not only that but if dogs were cats and cats were birds then the mice would win every time. No I have no idea what it means either but at the time it was very profound and sounded utterly plausible!
On returning to the office where even more nothingness was happening I actually received one of those nice phone calls you hear about a lot and you are sure one day it will happen to you but it never does, but yes today one of these did happen to me. It was a thank you call!!!! I had to ask the caller to repeat themselves as I was not sure I heard them right and when once again they thanked me I had to ask them if they had the right number and when they confirmed they did I then had to ask them if they had the right person! But apparently I had gone out of my way earlier in the week to help them and they were calling to say thanks. It is funny how a simple thing like that makes you go all mushy inside. Of course when I got off of the phone and my workmates asked me why I was grinning they didn’t believe my explanation and after much discussion they decided that it was my wife on the phone and that I had been promised erm… lets just say a nice supper shall we?
We then had a discussion about death and how everyone didn’t care how they went as long as they kept their dignity. I know, we talk about death a lot in our office, it is a healthy subject to talk about, better than ignoring it and pretending it is never going to happen to you because one day some big guy with an even bigger scythe is going to come up to you and demand to see the little slip of paper that says today you do not have to be dead and if he doesn’t see it then *insert nasty noise of a scythe slicing through flesh and bone and all the squishy bits inbetween*.
After our happy discussion and me offering to make coffee about 40 times I then had to actually go and do some *gasp* work!!! It was only an asbestos survey but it was still the W word. But it had its better moments as we stopped off on the way back and pottered around a garden centre for an hour looking for just the right colour of some plant or another for my colleagues wife. The great thing about it was it wasn’t even me trying to waste time it was done for me!! Of course we got our samples to send off to the lab so when we got back to the office it looked like we had worked hard which was nice, nah it was great too!! J.
And then all too soon the work day was over. I was actually kind of sad to leave the office, who am I kidding I am never sad to leave the office, but the day just got better. My beloved wife asked me if I wanted a subway for supper. Now is the pope a religious dude, does Britain need a new government, did England win the football (yes I know this time Ms Sally Jacobs). So off we went to get the scoff which we have just finished consuming. But the most amazing thing of the day is this.
I did not even get angry when the stupid woman pulled out in front of me when I went around the roundabout making me do an emergency stop and almost ramming her in the side, I didn’t even get mad when she just sat there with her head in her hands instead of saying sorry. That in itself was good, but I didn’t even get mad when another woman pulled out of a turn straight in front of me almost making me ram her in the side and then also not saying sorry. Normally I would of shouted some rude words at them and made them understand that they had almost hurt people so what does that mean? Does it mean that I have mellowed in my old age? No I don’t think so, do I suddenly have a split personality? Again I don’t think so, I think all it means is:
What a great day!!!!