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When you are waiting for someone to come and they are late, just get involved in something that makes it difficult for you to answer the door, or at least not wanting to answer the door.  That’s what I am doing now, getting myself involved in writing a blog.  I’m waiting for the Tesco delivery which should have been here between nine and ten p.m. and it’s now ten thirty.  Of course I can stop and answer the door.  I suppose really I ought to go to the toilet and then for sure the bell would go just as I had reached that point of no return.  Do you shout and scream at the delivery man when this happens to you?  I don’t.  After all it’s a pretty thankless task, on the minimum wage.  There are so many pitfalls like diversions on the country lanes where it is so difficult to find one’s way.  I do know there is a hole in the road on our chief lane.  I expect that is the problem tonight. When it gets to ten forty-five I will ring the office if I still don’t have my delivery.  Of course I won’t starve.  As my daughter would say, “You’ve got a first world problem.” No I won’t starve. The last time this happened the worst I did to the young man who delivered was to give him a small book about Jesus, well it was close to Christmas.  I wonder what he did with it.

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