Day 47 - You just cant win!

Today, a funny thing happened to me on my run. As I was running along the path, I could see another runner coming towards me quite quickly. I decided to cross to the opposite side of the road, to avoid coming within two metres of him. I had to wait a few moments before I could cross, as there were cars coming, but I managed to duck across just before our paths crossed. As we passed, I gave my usual smile and wave, but he shook his head, tut tutted and shouted “there’s no virus!” You just can’t win! This is a new one on me, getting given out to for making an effort to socially distance. I wonder is the guy a conspiracy theorist, or is he just fed up of people “overreacting?” For some reason, this incident annoyed me way more than any time a walker has given me a dirty look for being out running.

These days when I’m out and about, I wave and smile to as many people as I can, especially the people that I see almost every day. I like having a project of trying to befriend the regulars that I come across while on my daily run! Plus, smiling and waving pretty much always softens the attitude of walkers that look like they might be annoyed at the sight of someone out running. There’s a guy that usually sits outside his apartment block, above the Sunday’s Well Road. Some days he’s doing some sort of DIY project, but today he was just sitting and watching the world go by. He’d a big greeting for me today when I said hello!

This morning, I’d a few bits and pieces to get through for work. This included a plagiarism meeting with a student, who didn’t actually show up for the Zoom meeting in the end. I was quite productive with the morning though, and got my work to-do list completed.

In the afternoon, I took a while to make a nice lunch for me and Peter, to read a running magazine and to write a postcard to send to Garrett, who sent us one this week. We had quite a laugh composing our poem on the postcard!

In the evening, we had our Pete class at 6pm, then it was Crusaders quiz time again. Brendan was the quizmaster. The questions were hard tonight, and he flew through them at quite a fast pace. Even when people kept asking him to slow down, he kept churning out the questions quickly. It was a bit stressful, but quite funny, and I got a final score of 19 out of 50. During the quiz, myself and Emer had a great text conversation about Percy Pigs, as she was eating some. Now that I’m thinking about these, some of my favourite sweets, I’m suddenly thinking about how much I miss Marks & Spencer food! You think you’re fully aware of everything that you miss during lockdown, and then moments like these pop up. Small, but not insignificant moments!Les mer