I don't know where we're going, but it can only be 5K away

Sardonicat wrote: »

He would have made such an excellent codger; cantankerous, disgraceful and sh1t stirring, aggravating, annoying, lovable and beautiful all at once.

Happy Birthday Johnny Boy!

Off to play 'Wheels', my favourite Lennon solo artist offering, lest I lose sight if myself while I fry Grumpy some eggs for his dinner.

ha yeah, lovely description. I suppose genius in itself is kinda boring anyway, a grumpy somewhat self destructive, flawed genius is far more interesting imo.

Enjoy yer tunes and ya should teach that fella how to use the auld pan himself

Home at last! Relaxing now with Netflix and a Brandy.

Typical timing and story will be slightly ruined now given that I just accidentally insulted an elderly person via post to sardonicat but this happened in between my earlier post and coming back to the house I thought about not posting it in case people start to think this fella just hates old people, but ah screw it, I HAVE to share this with someone so I'm posting it anyway and on my life, my parents lives, my lovely wee dog's life etc this genuinely just happened there now. I have my flaws but I never post about made up stuff or whats the point posting atall.
So I went off to local centra to get one more craft beer bout 20 mins ago.
And theres a queue in the shop. So I stand there for a bit and eventually I'm 2nd in the queue and maybe 5 more behind me.
So this old-ish woman is looking at the queue and has a few bits and I said to her go ahead of me.
As I did it I kinda looked over my shoulder and muttered its ok isn't it? to the chap behind and he said yeah sound.
So off she goes to the counter. She only had a few bits but a discussion ensued with the cashier girl who I'd know fairly well from going in there and I could see the cashier girl was a bit uncomfortable with the whole verbal exchange that followed. She's young, shy etc, but looked particularly uneasy with whatever the old lady said.
So anyway, now the old lady is walking away and I'm walking toward the chashier so we're crossing paths if that makes sense. And she says "I just want to compliment you on your manners". To which I said "you're welcome, hard times". And with that she says "come here to me" and beckons with her index finger, to lean in closer, ya know that c'mere thing people do with their finger.
So I'm now standing VERY close to her and thinking covid and stuff and she whispers "The next few weeks will decide everything, your soul will be seen in the next few weeks, how do you feel about that?"
And its weird coz with the face mask on my facial reaction actually divided into two, I had a wee smirk beneath my face mask thinking this is hilarious and yet my eyes were staring into hers and definitely taking her very seriously.
So eventually I muttered "My soul, I dunno".
And she replied "in the next few weeks all will become clear, God bless". And walked out.
I'm not religious but I instinctively replied "god bless and take care".
So up to the counter and got my stuff, cashier said nothing about her and neither did I.

But on my short walk home I was getting flashbacks to that father Ted episode where the old woman called Ted over with the finger and said "I know what yer up to". It was exactly like that the way she called me over.
My poor soul, sure between the long commutes and getting stopped by the guards regularly and now it turns out my soul is screwed as well, theres not much of me left!!!!!!