The Challenge makes one think of denticians, or being in any of the armed forces— your service motto is always “Hurry up and wait!”
But they also wait who only wait. I remember in the navy long ago it was a time honoured custom to send the newbie down to Naval Stores for a “long weight”. Which was exactly what he’d get too …
AT THE BEACH WITH THE
Spouse a wee while ago I saw a sunset coming (they do that a lot) and despite grumps from a lady wanting her tea I took some test shots. The final real one I’ve already posted but this was one I got whilst waiting—
—and she, sensible person, waited in the car slurping tea and thawing out. Gemstone Beach at Orepuki; amazing how many tourists gallop down to it expecting multi-faceted rubies and things everywhere. They learn.
AND YES, IT IS
still there in Queens Park (Invercargill), this picture of sartorial elegance—
—but it has shrunk a lot since I first came across it and its family. The management is destroying a mini-environment that took possibly decades to develop … and will soon be a ‘frisbee golf course’. A giant puffball awaiting the end: arise ye goths and glut your ire!
YESTERDAY
I hoofed off to the parking lot for the deceased where they are popped into cosy little spaces and cheerily waiting; benignly guarded by this heavenly being with the savaged wings and missing paw—
—who seems, like them, to be waiting for eternity or the end, whichever comes first (wee person might have had quicker results going to Naval Stores).
AND LETS NOT
lose sight of the fact that some of these good people have already been quietly waiting for generations. The deceased are a patient lot. I’ve never heard a single gripe—
—so far. And if ever I do I shan’t wait around to debate, my footprints will be ten feet apart (and once into my stride they’ll be a minimum of thirty).
AND FOR GETTING THIS FAR
you deserve another look at the ever patient being with the clipped wings. She/he/it is patiently waiting out in the rain right now but I guess that’s the way of it for angels as much as anyone else in the armed forces. You know, the old “Hurry up and wait!”
“Get a move on, Argie—I can’t hold this pose for ever…”
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