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…and manners good and bad.

Yesterday, I witnessed a rare thing, a child who said “Excuse me,” before she spoke to the adult who she was with. Amazing! And so sad that it’s amazing because it is rare. On the bus today a child was told to “lower her voice” which was actually said louder than whatever the child had said which wasn’t loud enough for me to hear. Later, when buying a sandwich, I overheard one of the shop assistants complaining that she was tired and wished she wasn’t there. Well piss off then love, there’s lots of people who would be grateful for your job!

Still on the subject of manners, can I add that I don’t think that it is acceptable to spit in the street. It is disgusting!! The only time it would be acceptable would be when someone accidentally gets a wasp, a bee, or poison in their mouth – and even then it should be done discretely, and not with a flourish.

I’ve witnessed some appalling manners in the last couple of days. There was a particularly ignorant old bat at the Shropshire County Agricultural Show, but if the hat she was wearing was an indication of her character, then clearly she was as mad as a bucket of salty slugs, so perhaps she doesn’t count. Then there was the woman today who dropped all her credit cards and demanded “Pick those up!” to her long suffering partner. No 'please', no 'thank you'. No manners.

But, all in all, it was a successful shopping trip today. New purse purchased. Some wonderful buttons for my latest crochet project and some interesting green wools for my on-going cacti project. Also, at long last, they have the nice wool back in Poundland (3 for 2).

And an unexpected bonus, I received some valuable fashion info while I was walking down to the bus station. I had no idea that the purple velour tracksuit was back in. I couldn’t be more thrilled.