Because it's better to lose a bit of hair than...

I am such a lucky duck. Went shopping to get my melon coloured bag with sally today, after tossing up more expensive options, I knew $10 was the way to go, even though, when I got to the counter, he charged me $5!! Yippee! En suite, I felt like having some falafel for lunch, after seeing the dismal display at sumo salad, we ventured over to ali baba. As always, the shop staff were highly confused by my order of 'just falafel' having to verify, twice, 'with nothing else?' 'yes please'. I enquired as to their price, and I was told 90c each. As I am currently slimming once again for the foam party, I decided to have two. Then the guy bumbles off to heat them up and says, 'how about 3 for $2.5o?' 'sure!' I reply, one falafel isn't going to break the belt line. Then he hands them to me in a little plastic box with a napkin and a smile and say 'I gave you four' yippee! I gave my bonus nugget to Sally.

Now, you may not be wowed by the free falafel, but as I was leaving my car (the 1 and 2 hour free zone next to the round about, you know Jacki) I couldn't be bothered lugging my huge bag with laptop and two texts books into the boot, so I just left it on my passenger seat. I stray thought of someone breaking into my car flickered through my mind, but I dispelled it because I was only going to be half and hour, and it was the middle of the day, with surely other parkers around. When I returned to my car, there was a car behind mine, slightly obscuring my view of my car, there was smashed glass all over the road just ahead of this car. Oh shit, someone has broken into my car. Fortunately no. As I get closer it is revealed that the car behind me (an Audi TT no less) has had its bonnet demolished, and all over the left side. I then see what I assume is the car that the Audi TT

hit, with a huge buckle in its side and parked at a very odd angle, crushing the bumper of two other parked cars. Now, you had to kind of be there to see it, but but where I most suspect the collision to have happened was about one metre from my car. Not only were two cars almost right-offs, another two had smashed bumpers, while I pulled away without a scratch. That's what I call lucky.

And on a day where we are meant to remember how lucky we are, how appropriate.