I hope you all enjoyed the Bank Holiday weekend. Weather-wise it wasn't bad but time to relax and forget about the Monday to Friday routine for 4 days was nice.
So today, it's back to normality and that means the usual array of madness, frustrations, fun and frolics start all over again.
This morning starts with the Doctor surgery where I experience the first taste of the madness that awaits me today. First, I arrive at 8.25am for my 8.30am appointment. I stand in the queue to check-in and end up standing there 10 mins while a woman tries to beg for an appointment this morning and would not accept any of the slots available. Then another queue forms to sort the overflow - all I wanted to do was say "I'm here!" but instead it was moan after moan. Finally get checked-in at 8.35am and them had to wait for the doctor which ended up being 20 mins late. So much for "you're the first patient in" and "you'll be in and out very quickly". Hmm... At least the doctor was helpful and didn't hurry me out the door...
So, I'm now late and resign myself to the fact that I've missed the 9.01am. I decide to go and get a coffee from the new kiosk and wait 27 mins for the next train. I get a coffee at the princely sum of £2.20 and my hand was immediately scorched at the heat from holding the non-insulated cup. The guy was reluctant to give me another napkin to put round it so I said "one of these days some person will scorch their hand and sue the ass off you" - he gave me a few napkins - that's more like it!!
We're on the short train, a 4 coacher which is nowhere near long enough for the amount of passengers, and there's a party of 3 females (I can't call them ladies on account of their lack of vocabulary) - Nan, Mum and Daughter. Daughter is talking about smacking people in the mouth and kicking heads in (very ladylike) and the Nan is talking about claiming compensation for this, that and the other. Mum is just loud and the volume is louder. Lady opposite me is fiddling with her earphones which are very tangled. (How do earphones get so tangled do easily? You put them in your pocket/bag tidily and when you take them out they are a pile of knots - it's one of life's mysteries, that one!)
Daughter is now saying "this has got to be the slowest train in the world..." indicating clearly that she doesn't get the train often because by comparison, today, it's actually quite fast and we're running 3 mins early!
As we leave Peckham Rye station, a girl on the platform is wearing a smart school uniform accompanied by bright blue patent Dr Martins - just stand out a bit. I quite like them and her non-conformist manner, although they'd look ridiculous on me.
Well, the day ends and am on the way home - lots of tired, somewhat depressed commuters lining the platform to get on their train and more have coffee than usual. I'm sitting opposite an old couple who have a mobile phone and really don't know what to do with it. Perhaps it's new to them but the wife said "can you send a telex with it?" (How many of you remember what a telex is?!) - the husband responds correctly "yes love but it's not called a telex anymore, it's a text message" to which she responded indignantly "same thing!" Which made me chuckle silently.
It's a bit like musical chairs this evening. The seat next to me has exchanged bottoms about 7 times and not even halfway home yet! There's a guy whose trying to get attention as everything he's wearing is red: red shoes, red jeans, red jumper, red scarf, red baseball bat - he looks like a great big strawberry!! I would ask him for his newspaper but not until he's "red" it (sorry!)
Well, home now and off to my SW group to see how I did this week. Hope today has been fun for everyone in whatever form that has been.
See you tomorrow!!
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