Is Anything Free?

I've dyed my hair.....a rich brown with some reddish lites still showing but it isn't orange yay! A sign of relief breathed and life resumes. I had to go to the Council Estate Post-Office today. A clutch of bills and a parcel to post. The place makes me crawl. I feel the need to shower and disinfect my clothes afterwards. The place actually stinks of sweat and unclean. The queue snaked right round and outside with people clutching benefit books and cigarettes. Coughing and swearing but the absolute worst thing is their total lack of any dress sense. Come on ...Men in RED trousers. They'd give Queer Eye a coronary. Women in black tights and white stilletos. Its an education and the only place I don't mind going without make-up. I blend in better. Never look any of them in the eye incase they think you're challenging their right to existence and stab you with the 6 inch flick knife secreted down their underpants. Now I'm actually not snobby ffs if I was, I'd die here but bloody hell how rough can a place be?
I can cut the lingo though and make believe I'm one of them...Kinda incognito. Comes from years of working at Southmead. I once looked after a kid whose mum's claim to fame was she hit Moira Hindley over the head with a library book whilst in the clink. She thought all the other nurses were snobby bitches but liked me. There's an art to that you know. The ability to deal with every walk of life and stay relatively sane (yes Stephen I am sane ;-)
Anyways I diverse. I took Abby to see the premiere (joke) of The Village sponsored by Kerrang and Bueno Vista tonight. Free tix always a bonus. We had to be there for 6.30 and then stood in a queue for 1/2 hour until the film playing in the cinema had finished. Then into a dirty cinema..The smallest there and the place was jam packed full. Of course when you don't pay you can't complain...BUT I spent a tenner on sweets and coke....God, I wrote cock then. Where is my mind going?
The film was ummm ok. Lots of suspense and deep psychological tension. And it was quite arty. If you want to see it do not let anyone tell you the ending or its not worth seeing any of it. The main character is blind. 3/4 through the film the nice blonde girl sat next to me turned to her mate and said...Do you reckon she's blind!? I couldn't stop laughing.
I have to admit to guessing the big twist quite early on into the film and the clues are there if you're used to that kind of film. It was thought provoking and had a morality issue. Is it ok to let people die even though there is medicine available to treat them? Abby wasn't so keen on it though and found a lot of the arty bits very boring.
My mobile phone rang near the end. Clever me never switched it off. This evoked a heated response from the three old dears sat infront. One turned round and said 'Switch that off Now'. Then the short gray one on the end gave me a long hard stare for about 5 minutes. This made the blonde next to me near hysterical with laughter as it was so over the top.
On the way out of the complex I nearly collided with a guy who was sat by me...He was in the wrong lane and cut me up. We both stopped at the petrol station and he went to get money out of the broken cash point (only one the council estate has) broke now for three weeks. I informed him of its demise and he looked perplexed. 'You can get cash back in there' I said helpfully. He told me I knew everything. 'Yes' I remarked 'including the right lane to use'. He then said I was picking on him and laughed. Think I could have pulled there!.
So now I'm home. My youngest is staying with friends and they called me to say she'd only packed a pair of shorts. Bloody kids...Think at 10 she'd know how to pack a bag! (crap mother alert)
I'm off to bed. With the Cat. Awww
xxx