I did put it down originally to the fact that I was getting older, and when you get older maybe you tend to notice it more. It has, however, become apparent just lately that it wasn't just me, the world is full of surley, ignorant and down right rude bastards. Take my Ex-wife............ please!!!!! take her anywhere you like as long as it's miles away from me. I don't suppose she counts though, it's in her job description to try, whenever possible, to make me as miserable as possible. On the plus side, it is a job she's ideally suited for and she is very good at it. Years of government sponsered training paying dividends, money well spent!
No, it's more the rest of the world who don't seem to give a toss about everything and don't mind letting you know at any given opportunity. Whether you're shopping or just having a meander down the street, it seems that everyone you come across is miserable as sin and twice as thick. Generally speaking, everyone seems so self obsessed, so engrossed in their own miserable existance that if they did smile and give a cheery 'hello' to anybody they came across, then the whole fabric of the space/time continuum would splinter, crack and cascade up it own arsehole. Existance would cease and leaving only a sullen and eeiry quiet in it's wake. Said miserable 'bastards' would proberbly quite like the idea of that on the whole, so why not smile, you've got sod all to loose! Am I labouring this point? I think that perhaps I am.
Even people formerly regarded as close friends seem to be going off on one, maybe it's the state of the economy that's got everyone 'well vexed', everybodies worried about everything and really grouchy as a result. I think the general problem is exasibated by the fact that I have recently moved, accidently, into one of the very few town communities left on the face of the planet where people actually do say a cheery 'good morning' to you as you walk down the street, where everyone does seem to know everyone else and people seem rather eager to help you. After living in a 'burb' for the last 3 years it is quite a culture shock, but a nice one all the same. I won't tell you where it is though if you don't mind. The last thing we need, as a community, is a bunch of surley, city bastards moving in to our utopia in search of a genuine community experience.
Coming Soon, oh I don't know,
Countdown?
