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Pay day...

Wednesday is pay day šŸ˜Š well social Welfare day when you are unemployed and need to pick up the money from post office, what is not always pleasant experience as sometimes little bit of shame is nagging you in the back pf your head that you should work and not taking money but this will go away in a sec, mind magic. Well usually I will come to post office in afternoon as I have time to get there and Iā€™m not really mad about morning rush since Iā€™m unemployed homeless man. Today was different as Iā€™m leaving for wedding to Mauritius and need to be on the airport early morning, as usually the security check takes a lot of time, especially during the summer season, when the whole airport is full of Spanish / Italian kids returning from their summer trip to Ireland apparently learning English ā€œnot really as they are grouped together all the timeā€ and their parents have break for few weeks. Therefore I was at AnPost office earlier today to get in at 9:00 so I will be at airport in time and without rush. Got in there ten minutes before nine an what a surprise ā€¦. People queening already, woo hoo I was always thinking that when you are unemployed you have time to get up and enjoy lazy day but apparently the unemployed are too busy so they need to wait at the post office to get money. Some sight to see the types of people in the lineā€¦ not to be stereotypical but the tracksuit bottom with bright whit trainers ā€œsports shoesā€ and some sort of sport top or jacket is the main attire and I need to ā€œupgradeā€ my wardrobe for next time as I was like thumb in the eye, when in the line and Iā€™m not the metrosexual or any kind of fashionista person for sure. Three minutes to nine and people already started nagging why is it not open already, looking at their watches and make funny faces on the glass doors, which separated them from the long awaiting cash ā€œform last week as all is done on weekly basisā€ and possibly they might have other arrangements and were late. It looked like the ā€œsnakeā€ game on the NOKIA mobiles ā€œif you are old enough to remember itā€ when the people entered the post office and in between the lines of yellow ropes or whatever it is called the thing that make up the waiting line these days as it is not velvet rope. Snake slowly made itā€™s way through the post office to the counters where the reward is given ā€œi.e. moneyā€ ā€¦ very funny sight and if you play some nice south American music it could change to conga dance and that would be some way to start morning and get my social welfare, Iā€™m sure that this could be arranged and maybe one day I will get speaker and talk to the people to do so šŸ˜Š Imagine the faces of post office employees who are used to get people barging in to the post office through the first few centimeters of gap in door like it is black Friday in USA and suddenly no one will move until the doors will be fully open. Then samba rhythm is starting to play from the speaker and all the tracksuit bottoms and sneakers will start moving in choreographic dance towards the counters singing along and hoping from leg to leg, holding each other on the waist. This must be the best way to start your day and also the best way to get money in orderly and funny fashion but still in line like obeying citizen.  One day this dream come true and I will laugh my socks off when it will but for now I need to rush to Airport to get my flight and coffee since I was awake from 5:20 as kid who cannot wait to get out of school for some nice trip and therefore cannot sleep because of anticipation.