If you are greeted at your butchers shop
with this sort of reception then you know you should handle the assistant with care.
Begin the conversation with “good morning” and perhaps a friendly smile. If she
is still holding the knife and begins to sharpen the blade then it is better to
move onto the self-service section where the meat is packed in cellophane. It
seems that the butcher’s lady might have had a bad beginning to the day. She is
smiling, but a forced smile as if to say “I dare you”. (Many thanks to my colleague for posing for the photo and she let me
live). It happens rarely in the butcher’s department and up to now I have
heard of no deaths, murders or slaughter by butcher’s knife in this supermarket,
so I was dead wrong.
On the other hand this might be your greeting
On the other hand this might be your greeting
What more could you wish for: a happy
smiling angel at the entrance to the supermarket. You feel safe and secure and
what could possibly go wrong. I was sure that my shopping would be a successful
task on this day. The angel sent me on my way with a leaflet advertising some
Christmas bargains Those supermarkets do not organise angels for nothing, there
must be a profit hidden somewhere. I was very happy to be photographed with an
angel. Mr. Swiss found that taking photos of me with an angel for some sort of
blog in the near or far future was not the idea when visiting a supermarket.
The angel had fun and found it made a change to her boring angel day. I sensed
that Mr. Swiss was unhappy.
As far as judging other people’s happiness or not, forget it. I have never seen a laughing, smiling undertaker (it would probaby be bad for business) or a miserable clown (unless he was paid to be miserable). Mr. Swiss was slightly miserable today as he decided it was the day to rid the tiles at the edge of the garden from the various weeds that decided to take root in between. It is not an easy job as you have to bend to do the work and each root must be separately removed from the narrow spaces. I judged he was not happy to do this work, but am sure that when he has completed the job he will be a happy bunny, although perhaps tinged with some random complaints about back ache.
This morning a piercing
voice carved through the area outside my garden and I saw the flash of a naked
cat body race through the surroundings on his way home. I saw the cat hating
neighbour stalk out of her apartment which is on the ground floor, still
muttering incantations. In this case I was a good judge of other people’s
happiness. The neighbour did not treasure the unwanted visit of a Sphynx cat in
her apartment (not everyone’s cup of tea) and the Sphynx cat and the neighbour were
both very unhappy. That does not need an expert or a blog description: that is
common sense.As far as judging other people’s happiness or not, forget it. I have never seen a laughing, smiling undertaker (it would probaby be bad for business) or a miserable clown (unless he was paid to be miserable). Mr. Swiss was slightly miserable today as he decided it was the day to rid the tiles at the edge of the garden from the various weeds that decided to take root in between. It is not an easy job as you have to bend to do the work and each root must be separately removed from the narrow spaces. I judged he was not happy to do this work, but am sure that when he has completed the job he will be a happy bunny, although perhaps tinged with some random complaints about back ache.
I will have to have a few words with my friend Wordy, the little guy that wears a WordPress t-shirt about the themes of the prompts. They are OK, but not a great inspiration for my literature. More of these sort of prompts, and my Pulitzer Literature Prize is in danger.
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Haha, what a contract in photographs! And I am so glad it wasn't the butcher chasing the cat.
ReplyDeleteOn another note, just curious why you switched from your wordpress blog to blogspot? Just wondering if I'm missing something... :)
"contract" = contrast. I think I need more coffee.
DeleteI was actually in Multiply with backups in Blogspot at the beginning. Multiply no longer exists and I moved onto to WordPress. I am a WordPress person, I love WordPress but I still do backups in Blogspot. First of all I post in WordPress with a copy on my own Angloswiss site in Facebook and afterwards I copy into Blogspot. You can find me everywhere, but my main site is WordPress http://angloswiss-chronicles.com/
DeleteThat 'angel' reminds me of an actress....but I can not think of her name!! It'll drive me nuts all evening trying to think who it is!!
ReplyDeleteShe works in the local supermarket, although I havn't seen her since the photo.
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