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It's Only Diabetes So What's The Big Deal?

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I was well prepared for an afternoon clearing river bank, wearing cargo trousers with sweets in.pocket. However, combination if inadequate directions from organiser meaning I chose wrong bus route, walked 1 mile and arrived as they finished. Then got lift to party for River Aire flood clean up volunteers (floods just after Christmas 2015), and volunteered to carry food from car to conservation volunteer centre. Two hours of cutting salad and veggies with knife and food processor, I had to stop and eat some sweets. The kitchen chief looked at me, so I explained I was going hypo and she asked if I was diabetic and offered to make me a hot drink with sugar. I declined, but after the sweets, gratefully accepted hot milky coffee from a conservation volunteer on a training programme for people with learning difficulties, who had been cutting up onions and carrots for me to shove into food processor. Greatly enjoyed the baked potato off the barbeque, with grated cheddar, feta salad, couscous salad and beer 🙂
 
I hope you're fully recovered now. We all do silly things at times, well I know I do.
 
Nothing to do with diabetes but I have had some epic mess ups in my life, throwing pies which hit some french people, try conveying your sorry for throwing the chicken tikka slice from greggs in french.
Or microwaving my pants to dry them for an interview which nearly set the block of flats on fire luckily I had the bright idea of going outside in my undies with a bowl of water to put out the offending kegs, and got laughed at by passing school children.
 
You could always start with - as they do - Je suis désolé - and I always think - You aren't desolated at all that you haven't got any whatever left, you tell me this every time I come in too late, you're really thinking 'Silly cow!'
 
True something like, Je suis desole anglaise volent greggs tikka slice tarte ,woops regard je desole,c'est ma faute might do.

But at the time, communication invloved a lot of I AM V-E-R-Y S-O-R-R-Y type spoken words and my doing the international signing equivalent for sorry for the flying pie incident, however it looked more like a re-enactment of the battle of Britain re-told with tikka slices, and some hairy french women looking very bemused.
 
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The supermarket checkout woman being desolated because she hasn't got any smaller bags to put (eg) your new toothbrush in springs to mind.

The garage owner, since the price of the rear road wheel we'd wrecked on the side of the gurt lump of granite we'd guttered on a piece of wasteground disguised with weeds - not being covered by the Fiat manufacturer's warranty was another. Why be desolated? - we had realised we'd got to pay for it ourselves before we even looked you up to see where the nearest Fiat workshop was - and it's cash straight into your wallet mate, so how is it possible to be sorry! Do we even look desolated? Or indeed skint, driving a virtually brand new motorhome? (A French made one at that - so not like you don't know what prices they go for either) LOL

After this - he delivered the devastating news that once they removed the tyre - (which had re-inflated absolutely fine much to our relief) - when they examined the inside of it - they might discover, M'sieur/dame, that the pneu would need replacing too! Well true we were hoping we wouldn't need a new pneu - but knew we couldn't be sure till you get it orf and have a good look, and even after you've fitted it on the new wheel once you insert the valve into the end of your airline it could still go bang! - so there again, Merde happens sometimes - in which case since Pilote always use Michelins anyway and your tyre bay is chocka with the ruddy things, with about 20 assorted Mohos and 50 assorted private and commercial vehicles awaiting repair plus about an acre of new Fiats of every size shape and use about the place generally - then the carte bancaire will need to be hammered a bit harder, won't it!

We got away with just the wheel that time. Brilliant result! Shrug - and carry on vacanc-ing!
 
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