16th May 2005
My throat and nose were still clogged this morning, and when it started to rain at nearly 6 am on the dot, I decided to call for a taxi.
Bully me! The lines were equally clogged with calls, perhaps from people like me who neglected to keep a spare brolly at home. When I stepped out of the front door, I looked to my left and lo and behold: a brolly was drying outside a flat whose front door was shut.
The temptation to swipe it and return it to the owner later with profuse explanations and apologies crossed my mind, but, fortunately,my values won the battle in my mind between good and evil today.
After trying to contact my closest colleague(phone turned off) and trying umpteen times getting through to the Comfort Cab number, I decided to call in sick as I had forced myself to work in the past few working days with a clogged windpipe and had merely postponed an essential trip to the medicine man(or in my case, woman).
I hope the problem of overflowing sky juice doesn't recur tomorrow or I'll really be stymied!
P.S : Forgot to mention that I almost fell and avoided unknown(and I don't wish to know) injurious consequences on the treadmill at the gym yesterday. My left foot veered off to the boundary between the motionless edge and the moving belt, and some part of my left sole caught. I was surprised at how fast my hands shot out left and right, grabbing the handles in a small sliver of a second, allowing me to balance and straighten out at the same time. I resumed my running in less than a second, and reattained my previous pace in about 7 seconds.
Inwardly I breathed a sigh of relief, as I had witnessed a shorter, lighter guy impact his lower back just months before as he slipped on his feet and was thrown backward by the fast-moving belt.
Bully me! The lines were equally clogged with calls, perhaps from people like me who neglected to keep a spare brolly at home. When I stepped out of the front door, I looked to my left and lo and behold: a brolly was drying outside a flat whose front door was shut.
The temptation to swipe it and return it to the owner later with profuse explanations and apologies crossed my mind, but, fortunately,my values won the battle in my mind between good and evil today.
After trying to contact my closest colleague(phone turned off) and trying umpteen times getting through to the Comfort Cab number, I decided to call in sick as I had forced myself to work in the past few working days with a clogged windpipe and had merely postponed an essential trip to the medicine man(or in my case, woman).
I hope the problem of overflowing sky juice doesn't recur tomorrow or I'll really be stymied!
P.S : Forgot to mention that I almost fell and avoided unknown(and I don't wish to know) injurious consequences on the treadmill at the gym yesterday. My left foot veered off to the boundary between the motionless edge and the moving belt, and some part of my left sole caught. I was surprised at how fast my hands shot out left and right, grabbing the handles in a small sliver of a second, allowing me to balance and straighten out at the same time. I resumed my running in less than a second, and reattained my previous pace in about 7 seconds.
Inwardly I breathed a sigh of relief, as I had witnessed a shorter, lighter guy impact his lower back just months before as he slipped on his feet and was thrown backward by the fast-moving belt.
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