Wednesday, 27 November 2013

The pain game ... Monday 25th - Tuesday 26th Nov

Everyone I spoke to told me that physio on Tuesday was going to be painful, and so I was mentally girding up my loins for this. What no-one mentioned was the pain of Christmas shopping I was going to experience on Monday with Mrs P.

Mid-morning Monday found Mrs P and me arriving at the local shopping outlet village, Mrs P doing the driving duties due to my incapacitation. For some reason I was under the impression that what we were told on the nightly BBC news was true, and we were still in the middle of a recession, which was hitting pensioners especially hard. Well all I can say is someone forgot to tell my fellow shoppers. It was heaving, people everywhere and this on a Monday. Even Mrs P was moved to say that “I didn’t expect this many people to be off work today.” A credit crunch there maybe, but it was difficult to see from the queues in M&S. As my mending shoulder was jostled for the umpteenth time, by a grey/blue rinsed head, and as Mrs P abandoned me once again outside the fitting rooms, I wondered who truly are the golden generation. It also reaffirmed why I’m not a great shopping companion for Mrs P, she does deserve better.

In contrast physio on Tuesday was a walk in the park. Whilst I might have entertained ideas, of a pretty young physio gently manipulating my shoulder. What I got instead was a strapping shaven headed chap, and the opportunity to walk down a cold room with my shirt off. So it was, that I was sent on my way with a list of exercises to do, and my arm slightly sorer than it had been before. One man’s pain is truly another man’s gain.

Yours shopping online.

Jay

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