There is a little more of the same to report,
including a very recent nightmare journey that had an unexpected but very
welcome ending.
More electrical malfunctions
Tills have recently behaved strangely when it
was my turn to pay. Although they worked for the customer immediately in front of
me, one went crazy and had to be reset and the other refused to function at all
so the girl on it had to move to another station.
It is interesting that Joyce Collin-Smith
says that her friend, the one who could make events turn out to good advantage for herself and her circle, caused problems with electrical apparatus.
Some minor disappointments
It is quite a while since I have had what I
think of as a good day. Most of the misfortunes are too petty to report, but a
long string of tiny setbacks makes me feel that I am living under a cloud.
On several occasions I have made special a
trip to a particular shop I remembered only to find that it had closed
down. I took some unwanted items to my
favourite charity shop only to find that they were not accepting donations on
that day.
These things have their funny side: I
remembered seeing a stall in an indoor shopping centre where they repair
watches, so took mine there to have a new battery put in. The watch repair man said
he wouldn't do it because it would involve taking the back off and unscrewing
things!
These are all very trivial problems; things
could be and have been much worse. Not only that: a bad day had a good ending.
