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

Our morning inter city bus is very busy these days as college students are back and workers mostly have their holidays over

I get on at the first stop and there is no issue to put your bag beside you but etiquette demands you make the seat free as you get to later stops and the bus fills up

But some never do this and use the bag as a deterrent hoping passengers won’t ask to sit there

My hero passenger got on this morning and doesn’t stand for that nonsense! He asked a chap to move his bag and the first passenger looks backed blankly. And so the bag was lifted and dumped on his lap and the seat made free, huzzah.

Getting to the city we had a Ryanair disembarking scenario where the aisle was full. The first passenger was moaning he was stuck on the inside seat and not being let out but was sharply told the aisle was full and he’d be let out in a minute

Hurrah for a selfish passenger being put back in his box! 99% of passengers avoid confrontation but this guy was my hero for today.

Finally got a replacement for my inexplicably paint and wood-stained hoodie.

The full zip fleece lined ones has been like gold dust to find the past few months.

Some of the stuff my elderly auld fella comes out with. Not sure if it genius, humour or both.

I have awkward neighbours (known to my father for years), “thin skinned types, insincere, two faced” were the words I used to describe them.

But the auld fella says “be nice to them, they can’t stand niceness!”

I thought, what a great line.

I found a free govt publication which is downloadable, that shows easy exercises which fall into all the categories that exercises should touch on.

I found this info hard to find previously, but this all home-based and uses household items for things like weights.

It has clear pics as well.

Ththth.

Owl wearing headphones? Gorilla with a machine gun? "Laugh now, cry later"? Jesus on the cross? Motivational quote you saw after googling "motivational quote tattoo ideas"? Star on the aul elbow?

Don't leave us on tenterhooks!

One of the houses on the way out of the estate has put up a lighted spider web which has plastic spiders on it.

Past few days, I've walked past there have been at least two cats sitting at the bottom of the web, they look like they are trying to plan how to clime it.