Skunk <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
Quoted message said:Over the last month, I have been sworn at on thirteen
occasions. Cut up on eight occassions. Had stuff thrown at
me twice out of a car window - (fortunately I was wearing
a helmet on the second occassion, and the apple just
bounced off harmlessly)
That was me throwing the apple, an orange pippin if memory
serves; I was aiming for a nearby rubbish bin. I blush to
admit that I may also have been the malefactrix in at least
one of the swearing incidents. The occasion was an argument
with my former husband Theodore, who nurtures a
pathological (he maintains neurological) dislike for
Bromptons along with an almost Tourette's-like compulsion
to comment on the pulchritude or lack thereof of folding-
bicycle aficionados of the female persuasion. I typically
hold my tongue on such occasions, as I have so often during
our long and brutally wearing post-connubial association,
but alas I'd had about as much as I could take and 'I could
takes no more'. I told him that other people were not put
on this earth solely to be on the receiving end of his
inappropriate observations; the language I employed was
uncharacteristically salty and shocked even my own broadly
liberal sensibilities. It was almost
the course of our fracas I seem to recall hurling a
particularly unladylike epithet his way and watching in
horror as it was absorbed instead by a passing cyclist, who
wobbled slightly but continued on with renewed vigour, no
doubt grateful to be in possession of a means of escape from
such a vile urban tableaux.
I apologise unreservedly.
(The former Mrs Theodore) Gertrude Blovius