*sigh*

Back to being miserable and serious again...

Eeyore

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I realise my sense of humour is not everyone else's. And I also realise that I can definitely go a little over the top. But sometimes people react more in keeping with the intention. A recent story might illustrate...

I went into a local pub in rather a poor humour a week ago and had a bit of a contretemps with a rather pissed and over exuberant Irish chap that I know who's mouth sometimes accelerates faster than his brain can cope with. I took great offence to a comment he made when I walked in and I reacted - after due warning - by picking up the coal scuttle and tipping a piece of coal (ever so delicately) into his pint of lager (as a side note it very swiftly foams up and then takes on the appearance of a pint of guinness - it's also high in minerals so probably terribly good for you...)

I then bought him another pint and we parted ok-ish a while later. I have subsequently apologised and have had some interesting reactions from people who know both of us - bizarrely mostly positive. Rows are now resolved when tempers fray by threatening people with the coal scuttle which defuses things.

I popped back in for a pint last night and before getting my beer was presented with a very beuatiful box about 3" sq with a little bow on it with (of course) a piece of coal inside.

And when I saw said Irishman a little later we had a good laugh about things and got on with life.

Neither take me or yourselves too seriously folks it was a BS thread about the new numbers box not an attack on all you slackers who... (whoops... disaster when it was all going so well!)