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.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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