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Hi everyone… Well, nothing happened, no one got ill, at least, not that I know of… And the really brill thing, was to sit in a cafe, myself with a delicious Latte, and my other half with a drinking chocolate… With an absolute mountain of whipped cream on top. Well, I gave in to the temptation, stuck my finger into the cream, and stuck it into my mouth… Ummm Delicious!! Now… OCD would try to say that, Whatever was on my finger, was now in the cream… My wife’s cream… Was it ruined? I licked my fingers clean… Could that make me ill? After handling the steering wheel of the car? Well, it hasn’t so far, so maybe I just ‘Bontaminated’ it? I saw some fantastic cake… But resisted, it was quite pricey… I had to drive today, to a place I haven’t been in for over 25 years… All the trees had grown, so I didn’t recognise the road junctions. I got into a library, and sat down in a cubicle, got my books out, and did a bit of studying… I had to speak to a lot of people today… Asking directions around the complex that the library is situated in… Were the books clean? I really don’t know… I trusted it… The same as others in the room were doing… I did have a face covering on… What if something comes up on the television news? Well, how could they link anything to me? How can I possibly be responsible for what other people have got on their hands before eating something… They cannot sue me… And I haven’t become ill either… To be fair, I once worked in an establishment where I believed that other people had litigation solicitors on speed dial… What they maybe didn’t realise, was that, if an individual gets a reputation for suing people, their Gp won’t help them anymore… Put it this way, If you were the doctor, Would you? Car insurance, and suchlike become difficult for them to get. People who try to get runover by my car, may get a couple of hundred quid, the solicitor thousands, and me a couple of points on my licence… And they feel proud, until Wintertime, and their injuries become painful, even after years of ‘healing’… Suddenly that three hundred quid really wasn’t the worth the physical pain they’ll endure for the rest of their lives…
I used to be held responsible for anything that went wrong… My childhood wasn’t brill, resulting in me not being close to many of my family… I failed miserably at school… But now I’m a fully published writer…
But it is all created on a word processor, cos my handwriting is unreadable. I’m not responsible for everyone else… I take reasonable care… And that is all anyone can do… I refuse to take the blame for someone else’s tummy-ache, When they themselves haven’t washed their own hands… Nothing ever is perfectly clean… In fact scientists are now suggesting that we have traces of plastics in our lungs… Air freshener in our atmosphere could maybe be contributing to asthma… If we try to be too clean… Our natural resistance to the world around us will diminish… And we will ultimately die… It is nature… Biology… So… Let’s to try and just wash our hands after going loo… Bearing in mind that a lot of people don’t bother at all… Consider pub lavatories… And they don’t just touch the glasses, it is also peanuts… Bar snacks… They still go to the pub…
Okay, rant over. I tell OCD to back off… Leave me alone… Nobody else has clean hands either… Gels that kill 99.9% of bacteria, kill off the good ones too, the ones that are supposed to be strengthening, and improving our natural protection… Think about that for a moment… Is that a good thing?
More later… God bless you for reading…
Wannabe