Tuesday, 26 February 2013

I'm on the spectrum, are you?


Autistic? Moi?

BLISS is absolutely certain of her diagnosis, 100%. There may be a grain of truth in Jerome K Jerome's description of the man reading a medical encyclopedia in the British Library:

I walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.”

Blokes and medical dictionaries, and the power of suggestion. There must be a syndrome for it. But, regardless, try this: for twenty four hours, honestly and candidly monitor your behaviour and your thoughts. It's a rare individual who can claim not a scrap, not one single moment, no signs whatsoever of OCD or autistic behaviour-patterns.

What brought this on? Q-tips. Those ear-cleaners that look like fluffy barbells for mice. There's a box in the bathroom. They're pink and blue, and I will only use the blue ones rather than just grab one at random. This has been going on for weeks, until this morning, when things came to a head. There it was. A pink q-tip, half in, half out of the box. Could I overcome the mental block and do the right thing, just grab it and use it and to hell with it?

No. I couldn't. I pushed it back in and took a blue one.


Scoop: Chelsea emails

From: Rafa Benitez [email: rafab@tickleherbum.co.uk]
To: Roman Abramovich [email: bossA@bigyachtbigdollar.com]

2013-02-25
15:39

Subject: JT or me

Dear Boss,

I gathered the guys yesterday for a peptalk. Well, it went down like an Egyptian balloon, particularly with Fat Frank and Ashley. Then John Terry started and things went from bad to worse (a bit like this season, heh!).

Anyway, I thought you'd better hear it from me before you see it in the papers, and either he goes or I go.

Kindest regards,

Rafa

PS: my kitbag's packed and I've ordered a cab.

Txt msg: number withheld:

Dr R, dn't let the door slam on ur way out. Pls lv the tracksuit & pkup the brn envelope at reception. Enjoy yrself at Salt Mine United or Siberia City (yr choice). R.

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