STOP! ....I wanna get off.

That is today I am talking of, today I would like to stop and get off.

If I were asked to compile a list of the top twenty crap days in my life, today would surely be in there somewhere.

It began yesterday afternoon in fact and just carried on into today, progressing steadily downhill. Yesterday I managed, despite getting toward two years in the blogosphere thus far 'incident free' to have two fellow bloggers call me a 'moron'. Both in comments, both completely unconnected. The first because I made a mistake with something and despite my attempting to rectify that mistake and apologise, and the second, purely because the individual concerned didn't like my only mildly expressed opinion. It begs the question quite how insulting he/she might have been had I said it how I really saw it!

So I was somewhat narked, the first incident quite upset me but I let off steam to a friend and that was that.

This morning I woke having only had three hours sleep. I never sleep well on a Friday night, it's the knowing I have to be up at 5am that does it.....or rather the fear that I won't be to be more specific. It was one of those mornings where the well oiled routine somehow didn't work quite as it should. The milk in my coffee was sour, the cats got under my feet and my car breaks seized again, though this is only the first time this winter, so perhaps I should count myself lucky in comparison to last year.

And so I stumbled into work at the very last moment (I hate doing that), hot and bothered and tired....to be met with some sad news about someone whom I care, and which others of our number seem to consider only good fodder for malicious gossip. What is it about other people's misfortune and sadness that some find so amusing? My hackles rose still further.

The day continued, it was a maniacally busy one, my hip was giving me serious gip (yes, I am old enough to have an arthritic hip thankyouverymuch) my head hurt and all I wanted to do was slope off into a corner somewhere..... but no chance. It took four, not the usual two of us, to fend off the customers on our little customer service 'box'....four people barely fit, we were tripping over each other, we were each trying to deal with a multitude of problems at any one time, there were queues of moaning, irritated people constantly, the EPOS software played up, the whole computer system attempted to crash completely, threatening to disable everything in in it's wake if it succeeded and gradually I had that horrible, sinking feeling that what usually runs like clockwork, well mostly at least, was spiraling rapidly out of control before my very eyes.

On and on it went, no let up. What it was specifically about today that made it fall so badly apart I don't know, a mad day at work is usually more entertaining than the slow ones but today I just lost the plot somewhere amid the madness, today I just wanted to slope off and snivel for a while, but of course I didn't......well, it just wouldn't be seemly would it!


Much chocolate is now in order I think.......