Stingy financial rewards from the very grand to the less fortunate isn’t current. My local beggars are more generousI was going to try to mellow out this year,but I can’t. It’s all wars and floods, and so many infuriating smaller things, or especially that 15p commerce from Sports Direct at the very discontinuance of 2015. The company’s founder,“tycoon” Mike Ashley, plans to give all employees a pay rise of 15p an hour. Fifteen pence. What can you buy for that? A tomato? About one-16th of a jar of squeezy Marmite?I don’t like to sound strident at the beginning of a current year. I would rather feel full of hope, or that this year will be better than the final one,and that the world will improve before I peg out, but I withhold thinking of the “tycoon” and his pitiful offer, or how it must surely be his little joke,to withhold him laughing over his current Year breakfast, because 15p would buy one-10th of his croissant.
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Source: theguardian.com