I would rather spend the Holiday’s locked in a portable toilet in Sierra Leone with Orison Pete Pine Bluff who is suffering from explosive diarrhea, has no toilet paper and asks to borrow my sock……….then face a supermarket, two days before Christmas. Apparently the entire country had decided to go shopping at the same time today and it was bloody awful. Now obviously there was a rumor that those bastards from ISIS were going to invade and that that there would soon be bugger all in the supermarkets because people had gone mad………..totally nuts……….”stunard” as they say in Italy . The whole place was a zoo………..and by that I mean people were behaving like animals. I watched bemused as people barged others out of the way to get that turkey before someone else, school Mums who had suddenly gone from home work helping family ladies to total rhymes with “witches” who used their shopping trolleys as battering rams in order to get to the last box of Gordon Ramsey’s Duck Fat Roast Potatoes. Tesco is a huge supermarket and there must have been 20-plus check outs available but each had a long line of shoppers with trolleys full to the brim. We waited and waited and by the time we had finished I was in one grumpy arse mood. This reminder came as we left the store to the sounds of a Salvation Army Brass Band playing Silent Night. As the beautiful notes of the brass band drifted into the crisp morning air I reached into my wallet and deposited a few notes into the bucket which the poster told me would go to help make this Christmas a special one for the many homeless people of the area. Christmas must be the hardest time of year for a homeless person. Virtue is its own reward own reward and I should not need to write about it here but as I put some money in the Salvation Army collecting box and as the band played Oh Holy Night I felt good that I had done this and hopefully my small donation would make a difference to someone who probably would have loved to spend time in a supermarket filling up a trolley with Christmas cheer. All of us who cruise have the ability to make the world a better place, one kind act at a time especially in this Christmas orgy of presents, food and fun. Cheers and Happy Holidays
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 12:18:19 +0000