I've been feeling a bit poorly lately, the sort of poorliness that can only be described as 'a bit poorly'. I've nothing to show for it, no headache, no womit, no squits, just a bit of shakiness and a generalised feeling that I'm a bit poorly. I'm all 'Pathos-R-I'.
The trouble with being a bit poorly is that it resembles nothing so much as an excuse for doing sfa but sit on the sofa palely shaking while someone else does the graft. So I feel an idle sham, but an idle sham who feels a bit poorly, so now I'm a bit poorly and slightly resentful. It's not a good look, but it does go with the lank hair and unmadeup fizzog.
I know it sounds masochistic but just once I'd quite like a broken limb. Something I could thrust into people's faces and elicit instant sympathy 'Look John Look. Look at Jane. Jane really is a bit poorly'.
I'd like the sort of poorliness that makes people in the street ask if I'm feeling okay, would I like a chair, shall they call me a taxi (or tacsi for Welsh speakers). Mind, given my age that's bound to happen within the next fortnight. Osteoporosis isn't warded off by Clairol.
4 comments:
Jane i'd have prefered i'd broken my collar bone rather than just give it a good bashing and knocking about as the physio put it...I feel like a bit of a sham because nowt is visible and am sure plenty think am putting it on...Anyways men can always find a reason to feel poorly and make out like they are at deaths door...Tell him you have man flu <g>
i break bones for free - want a house call?
or get a walking stick............when I have to use one as I do sometimes it makes all the difference.
I know the feeling - there's something a bit heroic about being visibly injured; arm in plaster, that sort of thing. We live with `my cold'. When I tell him that it's catarrh, he doesn't seem to hear.
Bunny.
Awwww you poor mite! xxx Will that do?
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