But just because I might decline certain battles, it doesn’t mean I don’t care.

There’s lots of things that are important to me. For example, if I could I would make it so that creatures don’t have to eat each other to survive. But I can’t, so whilst I care deeply about their survival, I have to let this issue go. It’s just too big (and impossible) for me to tackle, so that agenda is “GAME OVER”.

But things can be on the opposite end of the scale, too small to waste effort on. However, it’s these things that often get people riled up. This could be someone nicked your packing space. It has consequences as it causes you temporary inconvenience, and their lack of respect is offensive. But it’s not the end of the world. Nevertheless that doesn’t stop us getting upset about it, and calling that person every name under the sun.

How would you feel about this battle?

Regular readers might remember in Held back by weakness from brain injury, I talked about a new front door we had installed. Well, it has a small crack in the window which was there when it was delivered. Apparently they can’t just replace the glass, it has to be the whole door. So they reordered it, and after much chasing, they made the appointment to come and replace it. I was told to expect them on Friday morning, so I waited. They never showed up, and I called the area manager. He claimed he didn’t know what had happened, and asked for time to look into it. He never called me back, so before the close of play, I called him again. Apparently the door didn’t even come into stock until that afternoon. Quiet frankly, that’s pathetic.

So he promised me the installers would be with me by 9 am on Tuesday.  Tuesday comes and at 8.45 am he is calling me, and I brightly answer the  phone, “Good morning Keith!*” (*I have changed his name here.) He sheepishly started with, “Morning Miss Munt, don’t shout at me, but….” Ah, the dreaded but! Turns out the replacement door had been sent in with the same problem and they had only just noticed.