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Every cloud
“You alright?”
“Not really,” she retorted. “I’ve a bad back, a bad foot and I’ve been in bed all day. I haven’t been able to get my paper yet”.
For me, this was more information than I was able to work with from a woman who I barely know, despite sharing walls with her for several years. Short on words for a response, I offered my best face in sympathy - for which you should read that I conjured a simpering, damp chamois of an expression - and proceeded to ladle on the misery by declaring it had been “muggy” today.
In my defence, I think I divulged this non-descript reference to humidity, not out of the usual British conversational tic where weather is concerned, but to somehow suggest to her that if she was finding today more difficult than yesterday, it may be down to weather systems rather than her own physical shortcomings.
Old one from 2010
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