The Importance of Being Idle

Saturday In Bed. With a Headache

Well my wishes yesterday came true and I had exactly no work of any kind, which was frankly rubbish. As I'm sure I said yesterday, and probably the day before and so on, I remember it being quiet this sort of time last year, but again I have to wonder how much longer I (or we as a company) can go on with no work 'cos let's face it, we need money.
On the way home from the shops yesterday we were behind a car crash. Not really sure what happened, as everyone seemed to be driving along all happily and then suddenly a Fiesta was swerving wildly across the parkway and smashing head first into the concrete reservation. As I was behind I stopped, put my hazards on to try and block the lane, made sure the girl was okay and called the police, who duly came and sent us home because "it was dangerous" (which was why I'd stopped where I had, to try and make it LESS dangerous - not that it helped much, the way people drive is really quite disturbing. Or at least people around here. I drive all over the place for my job and there is nowhere I have ever so such fuck-wittery as in Peterborough. Makes you think. Mainly it makes you think the people around here are fuck wits. My particular favourite was the cretin in the Audi who flashed his lights at me like I'd just parked there and didn't seem to see the steaming pile of wreckage a mere five feet further on). That's about it really as far as that story goes, the police turn up and send you on your way. There's no real resolution, no sense of closure, you never get to find out what happened to the characters... it's a bit like the ending of No Country For Old Men but less clever and appropriate.
Today has not been good; I woke up feeling sick and with a splitting headache and have spent pretty much the whole day continuing to do that and sleeping until it went away, which it seems to have within the past few hours. Not a great way to spend a Saturday, but then there was a new Episode of Clone Wars in my lucid bits so it was all worthwhile in the end.

posted by BadMonkey @ 5:43 PM