Saturday 1 November 2014

Time out (a new start)

Last night I attended a masquerade ball as part of an old school friend’s wedding. It was a bit of a fiasco as I didn’t arrange to get the time off work. So my first black mark was for arriving fashionably late. I also failed to obtain a mask; having dashed into the local bargain shop only that morning to find that most of their Halloween props were off the shelves as it was the last day and everything was going out of fashion. I still had no gift but decided to make the journey to work to save time and shop there; only a traffic jam put paid to my plans to wander into town. Instead I dashed into the superstore where crying kids were tearing things off the shelves in amongst zombies stacking shelves and inflatable giant pumpkins. I then chose a bottle of champagne only to find it was overly priced at the checkout; but I didn’t have time to complain and forgot what the proper price should be. I really need to find more time for these things.  

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