Having a bad day?

Having just had to move my car twice in 5 minutes, because certain people fail to park cleverly in our work parking bay, I’m now in a lousy frame of mind. Which is allowed every once in a while.

And what better day than today, because I’ve sure got several things to moan about. Last night Jan and I are watching TV, and it’s all military and Whoo-hoo-patriotic USA etc, when something rat-tat-tat-tat catches my attention. Was it on the TV? I mute the TV, tell Jan to listen, but of course, it’s quiet. So we keep watching, despite an uncomfortable feeling that I’d just heard automatic weapons. Oh, and of course just for gags, we’ve still got to move the Clio into the garage, so I follow Jan outside to protect against the ‘baddies with machine guns’ and stand guard at the gate with a ‘giant frikken’ laser beam’ or something to fend them off.

First thing I read at work this morning is a neighbourhood Crime Alert newsletter which informs me that an innocent bystander was shot dead, point-blank last night outside the Lakeside SPAR because he looked like a policeman. Who shot him? Oh I don’t know – one of the 8 robbers armed with pistols and assault rifles who had popped in to fill their wallets. Did they get away? Of course! In hijacked cars? Of course! After robbing the drivers? Yip. Were more people harmed? No, and only by God’s grace, since they were collecting stray bullets out of car-headrests, deli walls etc. (News item)

So I’m actually pissed off. I’m sick and tired of reading about these brazen criminals who control the land. South Africa is so capable of going forward, but we seem to be intent on going backwards because we don’t understand how to prosecute and punish the people we DO catch. And of course criminals are protected by our super-dooper constitution. But you know. Who’s listening?

You want more? OK – my (now ex-) peanut butter at work was mouldy. Since I’d still no cash in my wallet since our empty-wallet-session last weekend, I was forced to rely on my frozen-bread-toasted with-healthy-peanut-butter routine.
So yeah. Frozen-bread-toasted today. Not great.

AND the fuel price is going up again.
AND I haven’t flown heli-heli for a helli-helli long time.
AND I feel like an ungrateful punk moaning like this despite having a great life. Like I said. It’s allowed once in a while.