Just for the record this this post has nothing to do with lady gardens.
The car had to go into the garage yesterday to have something done to the exhaust. I don’t know the exact problem. Husband would be able to give a full verbal description, I cannot. It was so embarrassing to have to drive round the village with a huge rasping noise following me as the children shouted ‘It’s trumping, the car is trumping’.
After rushing the children out of the house, hurling them out of the car at the childminders, returning home to pick up the forgotten packed lunches and returning to the childminders to hurl packed lunches at the children I arrived at the garage which is next to my work. I arrived harassed and as I entered the garage I remembered that I hadn’t brushed my hair and was sporting a rather bouffant and unkempt bushel. I gave the key to one of the two men I pass each morning who always seem to be on a tea break and ran like the wind to work.
At the end of the day I went to collect the car. Old Mechanic Man told me my car had sounded like a Ferrari that morning as I arrived. I informed him that it was the closest I’d get to one. He looked me up and down and said nothing.
I paid a goddam motherfooking fortune and sat down in the drivers seat. I looked at the steering wheel which had a CBeebies Magazine sticker deposited by the 5 year old, which has been stuck there for the last 4 weeks.
As they waved me off I wondered if they thought the harassed woman with the unkempt bushel chanted the phrase on the sticker each morning before trudging past them to work to remind herself of who she really is.
9 Comments on "An umkempt bushel …"
You’re a tiger, grrrr.
(And if you don’t get that YouTube Gareth Cheeseman/Steve Coogan, if you want to get it of course)
PS There’s a meme for you at mine!
They were probably all speculating as to why you looked so unkempt – fellas are like that.
You are a star though. And I mean that from the bottom of my… erm… bottom.
Just a regular day when you have kids, right? Love that sticker. I think you should leave it.
Please have an unkempt bushel when we go to the flicks for the sobfest. It may take my mind off things…
I’m still laughing at the kids shouting “it’s trumping, the cars trumping” – that really got me, so funny
Lol thanks for making me laugh! Great blog!
I just tried posting this, but the imps of the ‘net ate it, second try…
As a guy who knows a little about the subject, I will promise you this:
1) That was not the first time that they have looked you up and down.
2) It will not be the last time they look you up and down.
3) The next time the “Scope” you out, it will include a “Star / Not a Star” rating.
4) You will always be a star in my book.
LOL! I once sent my brother to the shop with stickers on his head that spelled out ‘OB1′, you know, the dude from Star Wars. The shop keeper never mentioned a thing to him. Muahahaaa!
I did wonder where you were going with the title……