THINGS NOT LIKED.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1034, 9 February 1882, Page 4

THINGS NOT LIKED.

To sit next to a talking young couple at the theatre. To lie to your friend or enemy and be found out. To see yourself in a lucid moment as others see you. To order groceries for dinner and have them sent two hours after. To put something away for safe keeping so carefully that you can’t find it again. To look at the same time in your purse and find your worst apprehensions realised. To find that the fascinating stranger you introduce to your friends has borrowed money and made a clean sweep of them all round. To buy ‘ something handy to have in the house ’ and to be told by your wife on taking it home that you’ve paid twice too much for a poor article. To remember next morning your misplaced confidences, divulged secrets and general brag last night when in your cups. To sit down hungry at a restaurant and wait fifteen minutes before you can catch a waiter. To fix your mouth for a favorite dish and after waiting ten minutes to be told, ‘ It’s all out, sir.’ To be told of the .presence of wrinkles on your face when you know they’re-only dimples. To attempt in one day more business of various sorts than your mind can grasp or your hands can handle. To have the septuagenarian, who all your life has been as old man to you, ‘Well you’re getting old like the rest of us.’ To talk with the man who at every remark you make or question you ask says, 1 llah I ’ after the exploding of which expletive you must say it all over again. To hear people you have tried to help complain of the unfriendliness, coldness, and indifference of the world in general. To be always putting your knife or pencil in the wrong pocket and going through all the rest before you find them. To stow your railway ticket carefully away in some secret recess of your clothes, and then forget it, and ’ at regular intervals be seized wii li a I spasm of fear that you have lost it, consequent on which comes a spell of frantic rummaging until you find it. I