November

November

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iwmpop(mr le marquis)       -       Vauvert, France        -   End of October 2010

November!  mercredi 31 octobre 2007

No, you're not seeing wrong! The date is correct, and so is the title!

It's just that a favourite theme of mine – the Annual month of November – seems to be getting longer and longer, every year!

Already the worst month in the Calendar, it is expanding its influence into October and December. What happens when it finally expands to cover all other 11 months of the year, I don't know!

Maybe a bullet in the head?

The problem with November is that it lies between summer holidays and Christmas festivities. The clocks go awry, the weather as well, note books and wallets are empty, the weather is grey and dismal, people are curt and abrupt (even more so than normal), Influenza starts making the rounds, and – as if all that wasn't enough – the "dead" month lives up to it's reputation, with Religious festivities for the dead, followed by civil ceremonies for the remembrance of the dead, followed by other things for the dead, the leaves on the trees are dead, as are many other things, like the wish to do your job correctly!

Why are all these festivities and ceremonies in November?

Well – I think it's the nature of the month! Before it was even called November, doubtlessly many "nasty" or bad things happened, so somebody said – "Feels just like a November"!

It's in November's days that Pensions don't turn up on time, taxes are finally due, or a penalty must be paid, wages are reduced, you get your telephone cut off through no fault of your own, Banks suddenly decide to call in that loan, the car has a seizure, at the minimum - humidity in the spark plugs, or a battery not up to the cooler weather, at the maximum - a heart attack with the motor seized up!

Petrol prices go through the roof, so do all the other heating fuels prices (strange that they never go up in Summer, isn't it, and even stranger that increased brute prices are passed on immediately, but brute price decreases are never passed on at all).

It's November!

The wife, the girlfriend, the boyfriend or whoever, chooses this time of the year to announce they are "pregnant" – have "caught" AIDS (both results of the Summer frenzies) – are fed up and want a divorce – and all manner of other things.

It's November!

Actually, thinking about it, I don't know ANYBODY who was born in November! If they were, they hide the fact!

I, myself, only just made it before the start of that infamous month, but now that it is expanding its influence, well…………!

When it reaches Christmas time, it'll still be… November!

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