Three Blind Miles; see how they run

There is a stomach bug hovering around in one of my schools. Apparently at least 20 members of staff have been felled by it, suffering from flu and diarrhoea, causing Parents Evening and an Assembly to be cancelled. Some of my students have got it too. I happen to share the same room as one of the teachers who recently went down with it. I've been washing hands after clicking the computer mouse in the room, washing hands every few hours, washing hands, washing hands, washing hands.

I only had about 20-25 minutes to run today, so I went out and did three miles blind. The weather's scuppered my plans a bit. I've no intention of running fast on our slippery sidewalks in the rain. I hate rain - I've been lucky so far, and this is the first time it's seriously rained on one of my running days. It's normally HSKT when it rains, but I decided to dress up in the rainproofs and the hat, and didn't like it one bit.

The audacity of some people amazes me. A car drives by, the passenger-side window rolls down, and the passenger asks, "Hello, want buy laptop?" Amazing. I don't know how these people expect someone to buy an electronic item like that without any warranty. In any case, a laptop is too complex an item to decide to buy within 5 minutes. Maybe they think I'll fall for the "laptop switch" trap - they demonstrate a fully-working laptop, then distract me and give me a pre-packed laptop bag with weights in it. Or maybe they hope they can convince me it works by demonstrating it haphazardly, and blind me to its faults. Maybe they think the thought of getting a laptop on the cheap will convince me to buy it from them. Maybe maybe maybe. But seriously, guys, do you think with that sort of drive-by sales approach, I'd believe the laptop genuinely works, or isn't stolen?

It's the fifth time it's happened to me. I take three steps back, and mimic memorising the license plate number. Vrooooooooom! Faster than you can say I'm-bugging-outta-here-move-move-move.

Then again, the car's probably stolen too.