The Merry Widow
I’m just back from the village.
I didn’t feel like going as I am tired and loving the comfort of the armchair. However, Herself needed some stuff from the pharmacy and we’re running low on milk so off I went. I pondered on the possibility of a coffee in the coffee shop.
I changed my mind though fairly quickly.
You see, as I passed the coffee shop on the way down I saw the Merry Widow was there.
The Merry Widow is a lovely person. She is of my generation and we probably have a lot in common including the fact that we’re both local. She is very friendly. And therein lies the rub.
She’s a bit too friendly.
And she talks. And talks. And talks. Talk about talking the hind legs off a donkey! She would batter the ears off you.
I am a quiet person by nature. I am very happy to sit and watch the world go by. My pal Dave who usually joins me for a smoke and a mug is a quiet fellow too. We chat quietly and leave silences. We have a laugh or a gripe and it’s very pleasant. But the Merry Widow picks on a topic and she’s off – talking non-stop and interjecting with side topics before returning to the main subject.
I have taken to avoiding her when possible. She usually ambushes me though by appearing after I have already taken a seat. I have taken to changing the time or even the day when I drop down just in case she has discovered a pattern. I don’t like myself for that.
But I do enjoy silence.
I think you’ve pulled.
That’s precisely what I’m afraid of.
Beware! Hell hath no fury like a woman who reads your blog.
I am sure that Penny is missed.
The chances of her reading this are pretty slim. I don’t know of anyone in the village who reads this. No one has ever walked up to me and asked if I am the author. No squealing fans outside the railings. Anyway I have said that she’s a lovely woman and she could hardly object to that?
Every time I visit the coffee shop I am presented with a bag of chicken pieces for Penny. They all miss her down there.
How to have the companiable silence of your coffee shop visits destroyed, I hope you can find some way around it. Regarding your 5 star “Rate this” app, whenever I remember i always give your posts 5 stars (naturally). However I have now noted that when I return to your blog the next day I can scroll down to the earlier blogs and give them each another star. Changing pages allows me to do the same thing. So the question is how many stars do you want?
Those rating stars are just for a bit of fun. I can theoretically award myself five stars but have never bothered. If you want something to do, I have over 5,600 posts here so you can go back over them and rate them all?