Hi there
I cart my mobile phone everywhere with me. It's for emergencies and also for using the Covid tracing app, but I'm not one to use it for much else. What I have noticed is that older people, perhaps those over 50 or 60, use their index finger to write texts whereas younger generations use two thumbs; I have no idea how the young manage it.
It's a bit sad when a couple on holiday in Queenstown decide to sit down to admire the view but don't pay any attention to that view or each other -
Hi there
Okay, come on admit it?: do you truly read the instruction labels of products you buy at the supermarket?
I remember the first time I read on the back of the bottle that a person had to put on their sunscreen twenty minutes before cavorting in the sun. Huh? What about all those people who slap on their sunscreen at the beach, then lie back on the sand for the rest of the day? I guess It's no use whimpering about sunburn when clearly you never read the instructions.
A few years ago, I rang up the sticking plaster people to complain that the plaster I had put on my arm left a burn when I tore it off.
"How long did you leave the plaster on for?" asked the customer information guy.
"Um... three days?"
"Ah ha! The instructions on the packet say to wear a plaster no longer than 24 hours-"
Oops.
Now take Ibuprofen tablets. On the back of the pack there is a warning not to take the product if you're over 65 years. Huh? Even My doctor gave me two packets.
My latest worry is to do with my kitchen cleaning spray. For years I've been spraying the counter and wiping it down straight away.
Oh dear me, no. I've just read the instructions on the label. I should have sprayed, then gone away for 15 minutes before coming back and wiping down my counters. This is going to disrupt my whole nightly cleaning schedule.
Sigh, I guess I'll be reading more instructions in future...
It's been 20 Years today (NZ time) since The World Trade Centre attack.
In NZ it was the early hours of the morning and I couldn't sleep. Most of the country would have been asleep. I turned on tv, the BBC News. It was always on through the night.
I saw live shots from New York. A plane had hit a building. A dreadful air accident. I wanted desperately to talk to someone. But I couldn't ring my friends at about two in the morning.
As I watched - live - a second plane hit a second building ...
...then a plane crashed into the Pentagon ... Another plane fell into a field ..
And I was crying...
And I couldn't imagine that there could be such cruel people in the world to cause this destructuon.
