Trivial things that make you happy - Part 3 - The Happyning

It's a hard one to explain and not really a TH but an interaction I had with someone on site today who was here to do a job for us.

He was telling me about how his mother is dying of cancer mixed with a lot of humour and humility and we had a good oul chat as we always do when he's here, usually only once a year.

As he drove away I just thought there goes another good one. We all have varying struggles to deal with in our lives but the spirit of some people and the way they just get on with it with humour and looking on the positives it reminds of the human spirit and all the good eggs that are out there, quietly going about their day being nice to the people they interact with and dealing with their struggle in an admirable way.

Fleetwood Mac night on BBC2. It's been a Fleetwood Mac takeover since 8.30 and it's due to continue til 12.45. 🙌

I've convinced myself I'm winning tonight's euromillions.

I've just come up with a new line of numbers which I'm calling the sacred numbers. These ones won't let me down. For a few hours at least I can look forward to winning the lottery 🙏🙌🙌😆

I didn't win. 😭😭😭😭

The young fella who served me in dunnes this evening. What a legend.

The same fella served me a couple of weeks ago and he's thoroughly sound with the gift of the gab.

Anyhoo I digress. I was waiting in the queue, at the end of an aisle, next in line for the til but a bit back from the person loading their stuff on the checkout, as it's been since covid rules came in. Along comes the young fella to open up the til next to it for me and along swans a woman in her 50's I'd say and casually strolls up with her loaf of brown bread to the til he's opening, doing that pretend thing certain people do of oh I'm not aware there's a queue. I didn't give a sh!te and I would have let her ahead anyways with one item like that and the young fella served her aswell probably thinking yeah it's just one item I'll let her off but next thing from behind me a woman in her 60's I'd say casually overtakes me and strolls up to the newly opened til with a full trolley.

The woman loading her stuff on the checkout directly in front of me turned round and looked at me and nodded as if to say did you see yer one? I just smiled back ( as much as you can with a mask on ) and gave her the nod as if to say you'll have that. I actually found it hilarious really and I was in no mad rush so wouldn't have called her out on it and in general I wouldn't be the type to be bothered proving a point with someone over something small like that but when the young fella was finished serving the first woman, he says to her, "that man was ahead of you". She turns around and looks at me and the brass neck doesn't end there, she goes, "would you like to go ahead of me?", with a look of, you better not say yes.

"Yeah" says I, "I was ahead of you" and on I go, up to the till with my trolley and brass neck lady retreats to take her place in the queue. Then the young fella proceeds, with her in earshot, "the cheek of her! And if the shoe was on the other foot there'd be war!". 🤭

He then proceeded to tell me how covid rules and his fellow students being cooped up in houses and not out socialising, have led to a lot of them losing some social skills from not going out and how they were out last week and his mate has lost the ability to talk to a woman and was like "what's your favourite colour?" 😆

Yeah that young fella is a legend. He gave me a good laugh. I hope life is good to him.

tldr, jaysus it's like a bloody novella 🤭

Tomorrow is glorious glorious Friday. 🙌🙌🙌