Notes from suburbia

I don't know if it's because I'm feeling a bit low on energy, and as a result, grumpy (in general, not about anything specifically), but it's making me more than a little annoyed about stuff.  Stuff that would mildly irritate me usually but wouldn't cause me to react in the way I feel the need to right now. For example.  I feel really cross about this... I noticed on twitter, a conversation between two friends.  A man and a woman.  both married.  It was a typical twitter-friends type of conversation between members of the opposite sex with too much time on their hands - lightly flirtatious with a hint of over familiarity - the sort of conversation that social media so readily accommodates between two people who hardly know each other really but consider themselves friends due to their regular contact. The woman made a joke about the man requiring a 'pass' to go out for a drink.  The suggestion of course being th...

The parents (aka my Mum and Dad) are round dropping our two boys home after kindly looking after them for the day.  We've all been sat together chatting and drinking tea for about half an hour. Everything appeared to be normal... The female parent (FP):  "...so yes it's been a really lovely day, a real pleasure" The male parent (MP) (completely out of the blue):  " As we were pulling up the brakes on the car failed". FP: "Where on earth did that come from?" MP:  "I'm just saying, the brakes have gone on the car". Me: "And did you not think to mention that before now?!" MP: "No. Anyway, it's ok, I'll get us home using the handbrake". Me: "...if you were a rally driver maybe rather than a 74 year old man driving his wife home along a busy dual carriage way...". Sometimes I despair.