Today is a good day

In the words of Seattle Grunge-pop-ers Mudhoney’s Mark Arm, ‘Today is a good day’.

Sure, there were many reasons why today was a bad day, but like positive thinking and the advice to focus handed to us by ‘life gurus’, I have decided it was a good day.

In one foul swoop I gained a number of positive mana. First there was the Gap jumper that was exactly what I wanted but would never have paid it’s full price for, but today was on sale for barely over £10. Then there was the 6-dvd box set for £15 which allows me to watch Eddi Izzard in all sorts of fantastic attire rantic and raving about cows, monkeys and other animals in a vast array of European languages. Finally there was Starbucks. To be honest a vanilla latte is enough to make me happy on the worst of days were it not for the pang of righteous indignation I feel about stepping foot in the helix of corporate hell that is that green demon. But today I was given a free upgrade from the economy ‘tall’ to the club class executive lounge-wielding ‘Grande’.

Then it was revealed the world had saved the best ’til last as I heard, over the mall’s address system, ‘Would parents please be advised that heelies are banned within the mall. We take no responsibility for accident or injury’. WTF? What has the world come to, when parents have to be told that children barely of an age to control a bicycle without stabilisers might not be safe roller-skating around a busy shopping centre with shiny floors. Not only that, but just for those parents who say to their kids ’10 points for a pensioner, 20 for a pregnant lady’, they feel there may be just the slightest possibility a parent might sue them. Excellent.

Made me smile anyway…