Oi! Give me back my ball ..

When I was a kid, the classic example of a grumpy person - usually a grumpy old man - was someone who kept your football when you accidentally kicked it into their garden.

As 10 year olds, our brilliant game would come to a complete halt , thanks to some such grumpy neighbour (who presumably was sick of having their lovingly tended flowers destroyed by wayward balls).

We were heart broken with the suddeness of our game ending.

We were wild with frustration at the way a "GROWN UP" (darn them!) had once again spoiled our harmless fun.

Not surprisingly we used to fantasize about what terrible torments we would wreak on such Grumps... if only kids had the power over adults.

Of course, as a mum of a (lovely!) 9 year old myself, I now see why kids might drive you mad. Why a mere football landing in your garden might lead you to a small bit of revenge by a petty witholding of the return of the ball.

How ironic then, that things have turned so far in the direction of kids ...

According to this story from Ohio, an 89 year old lady is actually being threatened with prosecution for theft for doing the "I'm keeping this ball now!" trick.

I'm closer to 9 years old than 89 years old (just) and I can still remember the ire I felt from having our ball "pinched", but I have to say that, in this case, my sympathies are with the old lady.

Sure sign that I am growing old.

Grumpiness Anti-dote:

Here's a lovely black and white photo that captures the pure joy I always got as a kid playing football (or soccer as we must now call it.)

(first image displayed above - girl playing football image courteousy of tedkerwin licensed under creative commons)

How not to....change a blue printer cartridge in a white T-shirt

One - in what I am sure will be a series - of "Daily Domestic Disasters". Although they won't be posted daily - that would make me even more grumpy.

(No comments on the belly busting out of the trousers either thanks).

Grumpines Anti dote :

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Grumpiness Anti-dotes (About this blog)

This blog is written by a grumpy woman.

It's an outlet for my daily grumpiness.

But I was always taught by my lovely mum, that you must look for the good in things.

"Don't get ground down.

There's always a solution if you look hard enough."

I try and keep this in mind when writing this blog, and to hopefully make this blog fun to read, I've decided to always include a positive thing for every post.

So for every moan I have, I'll also include something useful or helpful or plain lovely. I'm calling them "Grumpiness Anti-Dotes".

What a bargain eh?

(This post is part of a series explaining something about the blog. I haven't figured out how to do an "about us" page yet , so that's why it's appearing as a post. As a work around I have backdated it to make it stay down the bottom of the list of posts.)