![]() ![]() How well is the story turned into music Mike managed to enlist. ![]() ![]() He had to leave, and I never did hear what became of him. The story is inspired by Peter Currell Browns book of the same title that came out in 1965. Of course he was technically right - but he nearly had a nervous breakdown, and finished up on his knees begging people to say good morning to him. He said that it was meaningless because everyone knew that it wasn't a good morning at all because they were all at work, and that t was hypocrisy, too, to wish people a good morning when you knew you'd be sneering and carping at them behind their backs before the teabreak had started. I remember, years ago, a very young man who suddenly took it into his head to refuse to say 'Good morning' to everyone in the customary way. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Smallcreep's Day. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The proper answer in all cases is 'Yes, you are right,' for such is the convention, and no purpose is served by going against it. Smallcreep's Day - Kindle edition by Brown, Peter Currell. It might be technically correct to reply, 'Today is exactly the same length as yesterday,' or 'You cannot reasonably say that the gauge is wrong,' or 'The manager works very hard,' or 'But it would be impossible to have intercourse in the office in the lunch break' - but it would definitely not be polite. There are many such statements in factory conversation, to which the answer is always yes, because they are not so much statements of opinion or fact as they are expressions of a kind of unity. ![]()
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