What me? A grumpy old man?

I always thought that the thoughts I had in the middle of the night were rubbish. Now I know it's a fact and that I am now a qualified grumpy old man.

I just read the book (from the TV series) and you just have to laugh out loud. Almost all of it is me, particularly the following:

1. Why, when we are having guests around for dinner, do we need to make the beds? Are they sleeping over?

2. Why do I turn Julie into a nervous wreck simply by sitting in the passenger seat of the car?

3. I complain bitterly if I need to go shopping more than once every 2 years.

4. Julie has often bought her own birthday and christmas presents and cards.

5. I still don't understand why there needs to be a live television report from 10 Downing Street at 6:00am when the Prime Minister is out of the country.

6. Why does John Humphries always cut a great interview just as it's getting to the nub, saying sorry we haven't got any more time, to go to an irrelevant piece on the impact of a new flavour of dog food on the canine population?

7. I'm not the only one in the world that hurts my mouth when you bite on a Toblerone.

8. Why is a Starbucks "small" still about a pint too big for me?

I could go on but you've all seen the series and read the book. Oh what a joy to know it's not just me.

I also realise that I have a tendency to be grumpy in my blog (you're kidding, I hear you say). You should come to India mate. It's a grumpy old man's heaven here. Why, for instance, do they bother honking their horns? The idea of a horn is to warm people you are coming or to alert another driver of your presence. If everyone is honking, the effect is the same, as if you don't honk at all. In other words, if everyone is honking, then you honk, no one can hear your honk because there is already too much honking to distinguish it. Which is exactly the same as if no one is honking and you don't honk, except that it's alot quieter. We still won't know you are there. So what's the point in honking?

And don't get the impression it's just a male thing. Julie is quite capable of being a "Grumpy old man". Have you ever heard her going on about the line ups at the supermarket checkouts or about her least favourite weather reporter Sian Lloyd and her prodigious hand dances?