It snowed last week, or the week before, and for a brief time the town was like a Hallmark Movie.
Then it stopped and all disappeared.
Since when it has rained and rained and the clouds have hung lowering in the sky. Tuesday, a blue sky, not a cloud to be seen, but I'm working a double and so my vantage is only from the pavement in front of the restaurant when I'm smoking a cigarette. It would have been a mighty fine day to have off. I didn't.
Wednesday, it snowed/Slushed the entire day, by boots filled with slush, shoes, everything wet, grey and dismal weather. The snow, it just turns to slush on the ground, there is no snow.
And Thursday, the same, a little bit hungover - then a lot, too much of a good thing, went to the Royal to see a customer play, the place is packed, the music, good, but there's a drummer in my head and it's doing me no favours.
Then today, a text early in the morning, waitress sick, so I'm on a double, and still a little under the weather, lunch is busy, a 5, another 5, a six ,a four top, deuce, deuce, deuce and take-out orders out my a**...bloody hell. Way too much running for a called in shift...
But in the evening, quiet, and I'm out by 7:15, and glad I worked the lunch because otherwise my ring-out would have been zilch. And - the added benefit, the sick waitress is now obliged to work Saturday, meaning I have a proper week-end off, what to do? What to do? What's on at the theatre, about town, man about town on a Saturday off, l'm gonna start with a shower...