That title just about sums up my day perfectly, It seems like its lasted a life time but it was exactly 24 hours ago since I was last sitting in front of this computer screen waiting for a phone call and checking my mail!
I am so tired I’m not sure how I’m keeping my eyes open!! Last night was a nightmare I spent the night giving away an excersize bike and vigoursly sorting out BAGS of clothes, shoes and handbags (all of which I have excess of) to take to the charity shop! I finally collapsed into bed a little after 11 and settled down to watch some BAD late night telly and try to sleep.
About 12 my phone rang and as I answered, in a really bizarre case of bad timing, everything went off…it took me a minute to figure out what had happened it was dark…and I mean dark I couldn’t understand how my tv swithing it self off could effectivly send me blind, luckily for me it hadn’t, All the street lights had gone out too…we were in the middle of yet another power cut!
It lasted about hour…funnily enough just about the length of my phone call…and then the telly switched itself back on at a stupidly loud volume and scared me witless! Unfortunatly the return in power meant that all the burgular alarms up and down my street reset themselves and sounded similtaniously…including those in all the shops 100 yards from my bedroom window.
I reset my alarm clock..set my alarm on my mobile should we have anothr outage while I was sleeping and settled down to sleep…2 hours later I was STILL trying to sleep eventually about 3 I dozed off, only to wake up convinced my phone alarm has gone off and I’d switched it off and fallen to sleep again at 5:30 and my alarm wasn’t even set to sound till 7!!!
Dragged my ass out of bed (and I mean dragged it was so hard leaving my pillow behind) and sent the blonde kid to breakfast club and set off to work!
Was a pretty uninteresting day untill about 2 o’clock when a little old lady collapsed outside the shop, I helped as best I could and spent the best part of 45 mins phoning for/waiting for ambulances/supporting ambulance responder unit and holding hands with a very scared old lady untill a “proper” ambulance arrived to take her to hospital…finally got back into store 10 minutes before the end of my shift with a cracking headache and a wise cracking assistant manager who called me a “busy body” for wanting to help!
I’m glad I helped but what scared me was the number of totally uninterested individuals who walked straight past without a second glance before I arrived to help…
…People suck at helping strangers!!
I was reading a story once about a man who fell into a man hole cover down on a busy shopping street, so only his arms and head were still sticking out, and it took him ages to get help. People walking past ignored him, and one even waved… The reason? Because people thought they were on one of those “Just for Laughs” or “Beadle’s About” style TV shows.
The world is full of paranoid people worried about being stitched up on TV. Its a shame, but its the world we live in now, where innocent bystanders are getting made the butt of jokes, so people keep themselves to themselves!
By the way, what does “I’m a 26” mean?? 😉