Sunday Take 2
Man when I'm not working, I really hate Bank Holidays. I mean when I don't have a job I hate them, when I do have a job and its an extra day off they're great. When I don't have a job though, its just like having two Sundays in a row.Finally found a playmate! Well, Jules came over cos she wanted to escape from everybody else she knows, which is why she usually comes to see me (it's nice to be a little oasis of calm in an otherwise depressing existence). We did indeed go for some driving (hehe, I love my new car, have I mentioned that?), but then oddly settled down in my living room to watch the guy over the road from me put a fence up. Now, normally thats not the sort of thing I enjoy, I'm not big on window-monitoring, but this guys DIY skills were just so amazinly incompetent that it was truly a fascinating afternoon's viewing. I'm still waiting for the fence (which incidentally has a big gap in it cos he'd messed up his initial measurements) to fall down. There were a lot of points when we thought it was going to fall and crush one or more of his kids, but it didn't. His wife wasn't too impressed with his work either, you could tell from the very short exchanges between them, and the fact that he kept throwing his spade on the floor in a huff, before he realised that he needed it and had to pick it up again. In case you were wondering no, they couldn't see us watching, my net-curtains are extremely good for obscuring the view into my house, although I'll be surprised if they didn't hear Jules every now and then, as she can be very loud when she's insulting complete strangers. It was his mixing of concrete that got her most riled, to the point that I had to actually restrain her from going over there and mixing it herself. Yeah, I know what you're thinking, and yes we do have odd afternoons, but there you go. We didn't do any harm, did we? Sometimes you just need to take your mind off everything else, and if watching somebody make an arse of putting a fence up is how you do it, then so be it. Cheaper than drugs and/or alcohol wasn't it? Didn't give me a hangover either.
;P
posted by BadMonkey @ 10:34 PM
2 Comments:
it's so funny because i didn't understand half your post. maybe because it's 11:25 at night, but i like to think it's because i don't understand all the british culture. *yawn*
America rocks! jk...
i'm bored...
I suspect the reason that you didn't understand most of it is that most of it doesn't make a great deal of sense, but it was that sort of an afternoon. I was there, and I didn't understand an awful lot of it myself...
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