on Sunday morning. We heard a car coming up the drive and assumed it must be the woman who wanted the spare roof insulation that we had offered on the local FB group page recently.
But when we opened the door we were accosted ( quite cheerfully) by someone resembling a disreputable twin brother of Bernard Cribbins, who took one look at the OH and declared 'No, you're the wrong man' .
Anyway it turned out that out he was looking for the local MSP who actually lives in the house two fields behind us. We gave him the relevant directions for which he thanked us and then said 'I didn't want to be bothering him on a Sunday morning but he's never at that place in town for longer than 45 minutes is he?' That place in town is presumably the constituency office, and I'm sure the MSP, despite his, to me, deplorable unionist beliefs, is there for more than 45 minutes at a time. And available by appointment.
Anyway off he popped. 'Do you think Liam's in?' I said to the OH. 'Not if he sees that guy coming he's not' he replied. Which made me laugh.
But really what was the man thinking? Doorstepping his MSP on a Sunday morning? Desperate, unthinking or just rude?
The woman for the roof insulation, despite being local and told exactly when we were in at the weekend, which was almost all of it bar a trip to the cinema, opted to come when we were out. We left the stuff out for her to collect and when we came back it was gone. I suppose it saved us making small talk while she collected it.
More about the cinema trip another day.
I hate people just "dropping in", and I'd be even more unhappy in the MSP's shoes!
ReplyDeleteLM has been very helpful with my OVO issues - and is about to get sent round 2 of same.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought it was all over.
I have zero desire to meet LM (no danger of me turning up on his doorstep LOL) as he annoyed me sufficiently when he exhibited uncontrolled verbal diarrhoea in his speech at the opening of the Westray Conference. If he'd spoken for 2 minutes then piped down there would have been time for more people to get involved in the discussion about ferries - his reminiscences were not important, ferries are VERY important.
And breathe . . .