Expectations ©
By
Michael Casey
Oh No, he thinks he’s Charles Dickens
again. Yes, I do have Charles Dickens as a screen saver, and I have cried while
listening to A Christmas Carol, and Michael and the Chink in the Wall had
shades of Dickens in it, but I’m expecting hence the title. Yes I’m worn out
after such a big sentence, and reading my stuff, or rather listening to me
talking to you might be construed as a Prison Sentence, but and you were
expecting a but, I’m expecting, so there you go.
What am I expecting? And please don’t say
I’m so fat it must be a baby, you are all so very very cruel. In French as you
know elle est grose, if my written French is up to spec, well it means she is
pregnant. Not just fat. Language has many meanings and that is why it’s such
fun, you can build and breakup just like Lego. My neighbour was filling a skip
with bricks and he said he was moving house, one brick at a time. SO I replied
like Lego. Then he told me that he knew somebody was NOT allowed into the new
Lego attraction because they did not have a child with them, so could he borrow
one of my kids in future. I said if he could tear them away from the Wifi. But
the point is Lego has superglued their policy together if only family
constructions are allowed into their attractions. Now if I’m wrong I’m sure
Lego will email me.
So you expect one thing and get another.
And that’s how advertising works, it builds up your expectations and then you
are deflated when you get the reality. Its best to have high hopes but low
expectations, then you won’t be disappointed. Dating can be like that too, you
think he’s in Property, and he is, he sticks the For Sale signs up outside
houses. Rather like in my play Battered Husband from 30 years ago. Time and
Tide waits for no man and now the Dating Game has changed so much too. What
people expect and demand has changed for the worse.
You’ll
find in my writing, if I can use such a pretentious phrase, I write stuff,
chocolate bars of stuff you can enjoy on your tea break then go back to
launching rockets into space, or fixing the asphalt , and asphalt is not where
you need to see a proctologist. Expectations are one thing and reality is
another, and a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. As we all bitterly
discover as Life pushes us along, my only Life has been a song and dance, but I
did it my way, on the late night bus avoiding the drunks after an evening shift.
There was one little Italian guy always singing on the bus, Frank something or
another was his name. He always got off at the Crematorium, just next to the Swish
curtain shop.
What
other Expectations are there? Well you never know what to expect when you read
my stuff, neither do I that’s what makes it interesting for me the Writer. If I
just wrote rhythms for greetings cards then it really would bore me, and yes I
can hear you all mutter, how do you think we feel? I could easily be crushed if
I listened to negativity.
Nobody
should put up with Negativity, so the worm should turn. The Lillys of this
world should shatter people’s expectations of them, as I said only the other
day, I do know how to swear, my dad worked in a Steel Works, do you think they
all spoke posh Queen’s English? They spoke excellent cursing English, above the
sound of the Blast Furnace, so as I’m still a bit battered I’ll finish by
encouraging you all to exceed your own expectations, and if anybody, but
anybody tries to put you down then bite their bum, and they won’t expect that,
not unless you are in some kind of kinky relationship.
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