Another Normal Day ©
By Michael Casey
I was wondering what to say then I remembered, “suddenly
from out of nowhere”, which was the opening for a story I wrote for Junior Free
Handwriting in 1969, it was sponsored by Brook Bond Tea, I still have the
certificate somewhere, I was 11, I am now 20, my mental age that is.
You see
today’s piece is my 800th according to the tally, if you google
tally sticks you find something interesting to amuse the kids with. I have Phil
Collins singing in the background as I talk to you, he is such a noisy person,
all that drumming of his pencil on our glass coffee table. The song is another
day in Paradise, which follows the theme of normality and nothing special.
What I’m trying to say is that, every day is normal, the
same as the one before wherever and whoever you are, nothing changes, the tick
and toc of life continues, boring really, well that’s what kids say over Summer
Holidays. Go out into the garden and play this fine day, was what out dad used
to say, the farmer in him saying don’t waste the sunshine, no we had no hay to
turn and dry, but we could go outside and use the sunshine that was there.
So we are bored because nothing ever happens, we are bored
with our lives, with our friends, with everything. We long for change or for
adventure, try the 95 bus after 9pm, that’s an adventure you don’t want to
have. Or walk down Simpson Lane as far as Trump Cul de Sac, that’ll blow your
mind, and not in a good way. Or visit the late night Chemist on Low Lane, you’ll
meet people you wished didn’t exist. These are some replies you can give to
people who long for adventure, who yearn for change, who hate the status quo.
What makes our day different, finding the last carton of
cranberry juice at the back of the freezer in Aldi, that’s a triumph for me
when I have a thirst. Getting a smile from that really hot boy, or that amazing
girl with the red hair, now that is something to make anybody’s day, you can
insert your own object of desire. Something that makes us glow inside, such
things are great things. Something ordinary such as a mum walking past your
window with her toddlers in tow, this is nice this is family. Believe me,
speaking as somebody who yearned for a family, seeing something as ordinary as
common place as that makes me thank God.
So what else gives us a glow, winning the Lottery, getting a
couple of quid so you can buy sweets and reluctantly share them with your
offspring, dad you are not a child share those sweets or we are calling the
Police. Just because I’m an adult doesn’t meant I stop liking sweets, kids are
so one dimensional sometimes. Buying a potted plant instead of a lottery
ticket, and watching the plant grow gives pleasure, watching all the pretty
flowers, this is good. Judging from the Police helicopter at night somebody else
is growing pretty flowers too, but not the kind that wins prizes at
horticultural shows.
So another normal day dawns and you don’t expect much from
it, until you bend down to pick up a pound in the street, and a pretty girl
jogging falls over you. Only the pound has been glued there by the kids in
no.96 they are making a UTube video of
their prank.
The girl swears at you, but as you both get up its love at
first sight, she fell over you, and now she has fallen for you. She has great
red hair, your weakness, and you are fat with silver hair, which is her
weakness as she fell in love with Santa Claus as a child.
Your wires are crossed literally, as you headphone wire from
your Beats is tangled in her Sony wire, you start to untangle the wire but it’s
too much for both of you, you kiss, you just had to kiss, as they say in for a
pound in for a penny, or rather a glued pound to the pavement. Those cheeky
kids with their UTube prank are getting more than they bargained for. And so a
family is formed, because of those Utubers.
Well that’s how it happens in Fairy
Tales, I have reached story 800, more than the Brothers Grimm, will I be
remembered like them or will my life be another normal day.
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