Every now and again, something happens in life that makes you sit back and just reflect on how fragile life really is. And at other times, things happen that make you realise how shallow the gene pool must have been getting when some people were concieved, and how that fragile nature of life is set to be destroyed entirely by in-breeding.

In short, there are some strange people out there. Take this conversation I had with a young person recently. To me, she is like a mosquito, I mean - I am sure she has a purpose in nature somewhere, but as far as I am concerned she is just an irritating whine at 3 am. She is useful and annoying in equal measure.

"Um, Will... Did your uncle just die or something?"

"No?... Why?"

"Cause mine did!!"

*Girl bursts into tears*

This was during afternoon tea, and was totally out of the blue. I mean, what would she have said if my uncle really had died recently. Then she would have been in an akward place, halfway through a mouthful of cake and nowhere to go.

And, as it turns out, her uncle really did die, although it wasn't 'recently', it was well over 12 months before hand. But I am totally using her method to fish for sympathy from now on...

"Will, whats wrong?"

"My Dog that was in the family since I was a little baby died!! And it had blood running out of its nose and I couldn't move it or anything!"

"Oh, poor Will -*gives sympathy*- when was this?"

"When I was 13!!!!" *Sobbs"

Please be moving on please. Thankyou.