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Date: 14 January 2005 16:04:23
Someone accused me of having an affair at work the other day. It was a joke, but I've heard "jokes" like this one before - and because of the gossipy world we live and work in, they have gone too far. I don't think anyone would seriously believe this one for a moment, but it still shocked me to the point of taking my breath away - and then, when I had got my breath back, it made me ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS.
How dare someone dishonour my marriage vows, my husband and everything I hold sacred like that? How dare they - for that matter - dishonour the marriage vows and the wife of the person they suggested I was having an affair with? For various reasons (which the person who suggested this outrageous thing knows perfectly well), this is a particularly sick allegation, and there was absolutely nothing I could do about it except pretend to laugh -because, the more you protest, the more people in my office assume things are true. So I'm pretty cross, really. Some things you just don't joke about.
People are still ringing to complain about the thing I got wrong in the paper, which is also pretty depressing, and I'm editing the section on Sunday, so I won't even get a weekend. Still, whinge over. We are finally getting round to choosing a new bathroom and we've got two catalogues full of taps to choose from. You would not believe how many taps there are in the world, and how expensive some of them can be. I'm trying really hard to have an opinion on them, but I'm feeling a bit washed (or washered) out by the whole thing.