Welcome to the now regular slot of Monday, same old nonsense, just a new day. What’s not to like?
Funny thing, Karma. I’ve never been particularly superstitious, but today I found myself caught up in a bit of a web of consequences. I will explain. A beautiful autumnal day, three days before a knee operation, that will render me useless for a month or so. Decided to take the dog for a walk beside a local lake. Rocked up, parked, opened the car door, which immediately reacted to the fact that I’d parked on a slope by swinging open and hitting the car next door.
“F*CK, f*ck, f*ckity, f****ck”
The damage was not considerable, but it was damage. Quick look around. No one about… apart from the person I was meeting for a walk with. They had not seen the, ahem, ‘incident’. Off we go. It takes about an hour to walk around the lake, during which time the Disney devil and angel are perched on my shoulder. One suggests, ignorance is bliss, and a swift walk followed by a quick getaway is the best course of action (certainly the cheapest!). The other, that we must return to the scene and inform the owner of the, ahem, ‘incident’. And then a third figure enters the conversation, dressed in operating scrubs and suggesting that if I didn’t do the right thing, then there would almost certainly be a payback, possibly in the form of a botched op or, at the very least, infection next week. FFS! He introduced himself as Karma, and frankly, he didn’t have to talk for long, although he did waffle on about a dictionary definition: “the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future.”
So, of course, I found the owner of the other car, gave ’em my details, and now await an expensive phone call, but at least the op is going to go well!
Some very groovy sounds this week, new albums released last Friday, Mavis Staples and Flypaper, some great weekend listening, and the radio show featured some Patterson Hood following the wonderful Union Chapel gig (Darren Lumbroso’s review coming very soon), and some Horsebath, Jim Jones, Son Volt, and Paul Kelly, amongst others. As ever…
