[BITList] Thoughts re New Year Resolutions

[HUGH]

John,

It's taken me a while - I'm now coming to terms with the internet-accepted fact that I turned partly senile and 60 on the same day 22 years ago. I still lack the knobbly stick and the wart on the end of my nose, but one can't have everything. But, hold on - somewhere in the house I've a kind of knobbly stick my Dad inherited from his aunt who had it from a previous generation (neither he nor Maggie ever used it), and I suppose I could fashion a wart from something - what's the modern style in warts?

Yesterday, when we boarded a bus to Glasgow (an hour's journey) a young prat, anything from 17 to 19, was already seated across the aisle from where we sat, screwed up in the seat, the better to get at his smart phone, oblivious to the world around him.  The  fore and middle fingers of his left hand never once ceased to peck peck peck peck at his phone, and he must have had a godawful crick in his neck.  But at least he had "mastered modern technology", unlike me, if my quaint little phone were to be taken into account.  A young lady in Tesco, on seeing the latter, exclaimed, "What a quaint little phone!" I felt a wart coming on.

Hugh.
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