Fat ladies in floral print make me feel sick and I've seen two of them today.

The most horrific was the one I saw through a pub window, she was about two feet wide with a short garish flower print dress on that had a hole cut out of the back so that everyone could see her pale, clammy, fat, sweaty back. I'm not being cruel, this is what it actually looked like and it made me feel queesy. I think the cruel person here was who ever said to this person "go on, wear it, you look alright." Cruel to her and cruel to the rest of Upper Street. I felt strongly enough about it at the time to point her out to Mark who turned around just in time to see her take a tumble as she crossed the road out side screen on the green. And I feel strongly enough about it now to dedicate a blog entry to it. Not a very good one I admit, but still, this has taken time to write when I could be restlessly tossing and turning and keeping Mark awake.

The other one wasn't nearly as dramatic, but I was pished by the time I saw her and full up on vegetable and goats cheese lasagne. She just made me remember the first one and now it's an image I don't think I'll ever forget!

Why is it that with all the best intentions people never seem to actually help when they're trying to do just that?
'I'll do that for you' tends to mean 'I'll cock that up then you can spend twice the time fixing it than it would have taken you to do it yourself in the first place'.
With this in mind-why do we, I mean human beings as a species, yearn for companionship? Do we like fixing other peoples mistakes? Does it make us feel that we're more worth-while as a person or inflate our self worth above the worth of the people around us? Like we're indispensable and the world would actually stop, even just for a moment if we ceased to be?
Get a group of people together and give them a task-watch the roles the different characters play, I bet most of them will try to take the lead stating in one way or another why their idea is the best or their theory fits above all others. They will prove this with rushed statements that don't really make sense when you unpick them. The real leaders, the ones worth following or at least listening to, are the ones that sit back a bit, listen to other's ideas, steal the best bits and use other's hasty statements to disprove them while strengthening their own arguments, they think through what they need to achieve before opening their mouths. People feel the need to take on everything to prove that they can do it, those that know they can but want an efficient way to do something shut up and think it out first. Those who want the world to see their achievements are the ones who rush in and balls it all up.
And when I thought it through and said 'I'll do it myself' I knew that would be the easiest way to go...
But you had to rush in while I thought about it. Just as well I wasn't thinking 'how shall I do it' but 'how shall I fix this when he's done'.