The Diary of a Nobody
Being the modern day record of Charles
Pooter VI -
direct descendant of the 19th Century original
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
I thought of writing Gowing and Cummings a more up-beat e-mail about last Sunday. At the same time, I was going to mention I wasn’t particularly impressed by Stillbrook. Afterwards, I deleted it. E-mails get misunderstood sometimes. I decided to have a quiet word with them instead. I was surprised to receive an e-mail from Cummings, saying he and Gowing were waiting for an explanation of MY (yes MY) strange behaviour on the way back on Sunday. Eventually I wrote “I thought I was the one who’d been hard done by. But as I’m happy to forget it, I’d have thought that you (who’re also feeling hard done by) would be happy to forget it too”.I’ve copied this word-for-word, because I think it’s one of the most carefully considered sentences I’ve ever written. I sent the e-mail, but to tell the truth, I felt like I was making an apology … for having been treated badly by them.
©MMIX KONSIGNIA. All rights reserved.
Why shouldn’t
I publish
my diary?
I often see memoirs by people I’ve never even heard of and I don’t see why my diary should be any less interesting, just because I’m not a ‘celebrity’. I only wish I’d started it when I was younger.
Charles Pooter
The Laurels, 32 Elmside,
Barleycorn Mead, Harrow on the Hill.
charles@charlespooter.com
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