Reference :- Is lock down boring , or fun ?

Reference :-  Lock down is certainly a lot more fun than sitting in the traffic for two hours fretting about being late for a meeting with the boss that you have dreaded for days .


 Apart from reminding oneself how crappy life was before it was enforced  , there are other ways to stay upbeat during the lockdown .   Here at The Sky Reply each of us has developed an amusing pastime or two to help pass the time .

 Gabbo  likes to wait for a few days to pass , and then suddenly confront us with the question  "  What day do you think it is ?  And no checking your phone . "   It is quite surprising how often we get it wrong . Gabbo reckons that the invention of the clock and the working week marked the beginning of a centuries long anxiety pandemic which we are still trying to control .

 Monte likes to trawl through the viewer comments on the Sky News You Tube channel looking for the wildest  nutjobs .   He says it's interesting the way the most well reasoned  and ethical reports often incite the  craziest  responses .  They are easy to find with a quick scan because they usually feature
capitals .......FACT!!!!

 Ken junior  watches the interpreters who translate news reports into sign language for the hearing impaired and claims to be teaching himself sign language .  My own hearing has suffered the ravages of time , and he often complains that I turn the tele up too loud .  I did try to explain once that I had hearing impairment . But he only laughed and said  " You're not hearing impaired , you're just plain bloody deaf . "

 Sometimes Ken junior needs to be wound back a notch or two , so I told him to turn the sound off altogether and translate the sign language for me .   Then we could replay the segment and see how good he was .  His translation was terrible , not even close .   Before I could say anything he stood up to leave the room .   "How can I translate that bloke ?  He has a broadest  Armenian accent  I have have ever seen . "  he shouted .

Sometimes living like this does get a bit weird , but not as weird as it was prior to lockdown .

Your comrade , Ken