People who can’t wait to tell you the weather forecast are a cunt.
I’m a ‘take each day as it comes’ kind of fella and I choose to avoid weather forecasts if I can.
As I’m not a fisherman, roofer, builder or landscape gardener, my job isn’t weather dependent so if I wake and the sun is shining – great. If I wake and the sun isn’t shining or it’s pissing it down – not so great.
However I tend not to try and dwell on it too much and choose to live in the perhaps naive hope, that it’ll change for the better the following day.
Which brings me to the next door neighbour. A retired man in his early 70s who is only happy being eternally miserable.
If he catches me leaving for work on a sunny morning with a spring in my step, he can’t wait to ambush me with the weather forecast.
“It’s gonna break.” he’ll say.
Or “it’s not gonna last!”
During the darker months when it pisses down perpetually and I’m depressed as fuck, he’s there to collar me when I’m getting back from work or from walking the dog in the evening.
“Oh this is on for the rest of the week!” he’ll cheerfully inform me.
I’ve told him on a number of occasions thanks but I don’t really bother with weather forecasts.
Yet he still can’t help getting all John Kettley on me when I least expect it.
He’s very much far from being alone in this British phenomenon mind.
A client only yesterday, (a nice sunny day – surprisingly) couldn’t wait to tell me “it’s not going to last”
If I want a weather forecast then I’ll have a look or a listen for myself, otherwise, fuck off.
Nominated by : Herman Jelmet