An Uneventful Life !

                                                         As you've probably seen over the last week or so my mood and my writings have been fairly pedestrian , and there's a good reason for that . I promised myself that I would be kind courteous and above all else mannerly . These are traits I was taught a long time ago and I find it necessary to remind myself every so often that this is the best way to go . You have suffered my annoyances , you have been eye witnesses to a few strops along the way , you have endured my hatred for normality and convention , and I always justified my ramblings with fairly accurate descriptions of where everything according to me went wrong .
                                                        Its quite easy at times to just spew out your feelings on a subject that has touched a nerve here or there . Its simple when the subject is easily understood and the information given is accurate . But sometimes you have to dig a little , sometimes its necessary to try and bolster up opinion when said subject isn't quite obvious enough . There lies so many dilemmas , you see your understanding and belief may not be the same as someone else's , even if the subject looks and appears fairly straight forward . And the telling of a story is necessary when everyone assumes that there is no need to even question what you've been told . You have then been roped into a false sense of security .
                                                       I am a bit of a pessimist , and I never accept something on face value . Too many times you look away and something you may have thought as being good for you suddenly bites you in the ass and then you're fooled .
                                                       Example ) You're walking along a beach in Bulgaria , and you know the rate for Pound to Lev is approx 2 Lev  . This guy walks by and gently whispers but loud enough for you to hear 3 Lev For a Pound . Your antennas suddenly arise from slumber , and you turn and inquire as to what he has just declared . Yes he says 3 Lev to a Pound , and you say I'll have some of that . He starts counting the money to you and goes ten , twenty thirty etc. till he reaches one hundred and twenty , he suddenly realizes he hasn't the one hundred and fifty you expected , so he delves back into his pocket . What you haven't realized is that while delving into the pocket again , he has replaced ten Lev notes with ONE Lev notes and proceeds to count again . He reaches one hundred and fifty and you're pleased to have done your business . You thank him and he goes on his way . You look at your wife and say wasn't that good ? Suddenly you look around to see where the guy is , and all you can see is this same guy running down the beach like Carl Lewis doing the 100 meters . I look at my wife and say quite simply without even counting the money , " We've been done "!
                                                        Sure enough after examination I find I have one ten Lev note on the top of the pile , but underneath there are fourteen single notes . I exchanged fifty Pounds

for twenty four Lev . What a twat !  I exclaim to my children and my wife , that this incident never happened , it should be forgotten about a.s.a.p . It should never be related to anyone outside of the five of us under punishment of death .
                                                        And so that's why you should never accept anything on face value . I learned a valuable lesson , as did we all . Just a little anecdote as I reminisce about my uneventful life !