After 2 whole days of festive cheer I was beginning to think perhaps I may try to like 'people' more in the new year....
Well........
Anyone who knows me know I take pride in my vehicles to the point of OCD - if I park in a car park I will go to the furthest corner to avoid some numb nut whacking the door or ramming a shopping trolley into it
This afternoon I parked up in a car park in Dorset and it must have had 100 empty spaces - I was delighted and parked up in a whole row of empty bays on my return while sat inside putting on my seat belt I was dismayed but not surprised to see a walrus in a small hatchback pull up 3" from my door (presumably due to some herding instinct as she had 99 other spaces to chose from).....Said walrus then opens the door and whacks it into my car (while I'm sat watching). Not satisfied with wacking the front door while extracting her blubber laden arse from the front she then decides to open the back door to get her tuck box and whacks the rear one on mine at this point I made a cheery seasonal greeting and started a conversation relating to the merits of rendering down blubber in order to make festive candles.
Feeling full of good will to all having shared this exchange of Xmas greetings I went to the garage to fill up my car and see if they had some T cut to remove the 2 lovingly gifted scratches the walrus had left me. As I pulled up I watched in wonder as a 'stunt driver' in his X5 tried to park in the doorway of the shop (while narrowly missing a chap exiting) just so his poor wife didn't have to walk the whole 10ft across the forecourt to purchase her Sunday papers - how thoughtful of him . Of course the fact I could not now gain entry to the shop to pay without doing what I can only describe as something akin to the assault course at Lympstone, the people in the shop could not exit, and I could not get my car off the forecourt without having to reverse between the pumps to get round him didn't bother me at all so I gave him a cheery wave and offered him some 'seasonal greetings' as well as I left....
My afternoon was made complete as I arrived home - my neighbours father in law used to have a small hatchback (sensible as its just the 2 of them and MIL is not able to enter of exit the car very well) but has now decided to change it for a whopping great 4x4....
As with my vehicles I also like to keep our house and garden tidy, and take much pride in my lawn - so imagine how delighted I was to see that next doors FIL had rotovated my front lawn while practicing some off road maneuverers in his shiny new 4x4
I think I suffer from reverse Karma - the more good deeds I do - the worse it gets I gave Tigerman a bag for his Trumpet, Gave Doug a tank for his Sporty, and fixed a quad for my mates lad and get 3 'bad karma' things happen in return!!!!
That's it - I'm gonna get NASTY from now on and see if that works
Some times three just don't cut it in a Tesco's car park you need to up your game to a M134D Sainsbury's well let's face it a tactical nuke is the only way to go