entertheworld

I am not in the best of moods.   Grouchy and pissed off would be a good description.

Unfortunately, the first day of cold turkey brings with it stresses not endured on a day by any other name, namely one of my rear tyres bursting with a loud bang on my way home from the terrible place called work (which I hate and will rant about another day).  Dealable with, thinks I, should have that changed within 15 mins (my record time so far) and be on my way to belly dancing class.  Not so.  The last numpty who went near my car wheels with the locking nut key and one of those pnuematic drills has a lot to answer for, seeing as the nut was put back in badly and the locking pattern was almost sheared off so that I can't do anything!!!

In goes the call to the breakdown company.  An hour and a half later , the guy comes along, uses a self-tapping kit to undo the bloody nut, and very kindly changes my tyre for me (this one has officially been disqualified from my tyre changing record now)

I missed my class.  I didn't get to add to my car expertise.  I had to wait around for almost 2 hours before I was rescued enough to be on my way.  The tyre is not repairable and will cost me money.  The locking nut is shagged, so must be replaced.  I have still not had a cigarette.

I have just watched a programme that has left me feeling very disturbed.  It was about a little boy, sold by his mother, beaten by the first task master who bought him, saved by the second who then pushed to being the youngest endurance runner in the world at the age of 4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budhia_Singh

This is the way of the world, the stronger will always exploit the weaker.  I do not like it.  In my eternally optimistic view of the world, I cannot see any way by which this will not be the case as, IMHO, we are supposed to be hierachical pack animals, it's a "feature" of being a human.  That should mean that there is some benefit to this exploitation.  Somewhere along the line, we should all as a large pack, benefit from some people getting screwed.  I feel fairly screwed where I am on the pyramid.  I can only hope that for the moment, that little boy can't tell how screwed he is.

So, today I thought that I'd try this blogging thing and see what comes of it.

I've just deleted some rubbish about being a newbie.  I can't bring myself to make any other comment about it.   Welcome to my paranoid state of mind.