Hard Times

Summary


On almost every journey I have to tell someone to shift their offspring so that I can sit down. The mothers usually look terribly shocked at this. Recently one of them yelled at me, calling me 'deranged', a 'bastard' and a 'racist'. I asked the other passengers if they thought I had committed any kind of racist act. There was stony silence.

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Hard Times

The rain was very annoying, especially for the old people, standing next to me on the pavement with their bad coughs and wheezing chests. At 3 p.m. the doctor was declared 'in', and we were let into the small waiting area - not a waiting room, those have gone the way of the bedside manner. I had to get a prescription renewed. I did not dare ask about a painful elbow and a s...

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