slightly better

I feel, thank God, as if the worst of the 'mini-Covid' is behind me and my body is starting to recover.
In other news, the ability of human beings to find huge things to criticise in even the smallest of circumstances continues to astound me. I'm starting to believe that a lot of people these days are just spending their entire lives constantly looking for fault and imperfections. They only seem to enjoy themselves when they're pointing something out to someone, and it's normally something trivial, and yet they expect to be rewarded as if they've just solved the Collatz conjecture. My case in point today is the gentleman from Grimsby who decided to berate one of our lifeguards because the depth of the family swimming pool is two inches too deep for his daughter to be able to wade across it without armbands. What sort of reaction he was expecting from young Jeremy, I cannot imagine. Did he expect him to drain the pool slightly, just so the Princess of Grimsby was more comfortable? I think he probably had no clue what outcome there might be, he just wanted to open his mouth and spew some bile at someone, because the world wasn't perfectly set up for him and his family. And isn't that the way of it these days? People have this horrible sense of selfish entitlement and they think everything should be bent to suit them and their needs. But that can't work, can it? If it's perfect for YOU then it can't be perfect for those around you, so where do we set the boundaries, and who gets preferential treatment?
The other issue wrapped up in all this is the "If I Moan I'll Get Something Free" approach, that is also prevalent among modern individuals. We get it a lot at work, and I know it happens to almost every company and institution that has the misfortune of dealing with the general public on a regular basis. People know that we're scared of bad reviews so they think we'll bow down and kiss their feet and offer them everything including Granny's teapot just to stop them putting nasty words on TripAdvisor.
Well, f**k 'em, that's my attitude.

RC 16-4-25