Elizabeth Bott

My anxiety levels are steadily starting to rise. I don't know if this is because I have had a very pleasant relaxing week off work and go back next week to no Funerals?
Or maybe it is due to my recently repaired Mobile phone breaking down again and thus losing me most of my contacts?
Or maybe, that the pad for the next show has dropped through my letter box and looks like a real 'lip splitter' compared to the stroll in the park of this weeks musical?
More than likely though, it is due to going to my favourite restaurant for lunch today for a chill out' farewell to freedom' lunch?
Now this place ain't cheap. My organic lettuce panini costs a fiver. I should have known I was soon going to blow, when in front of me , being served, were 2 Mum's and there exceptionally noisy kids.
When it was my turn to be served I jokingly asked if there was a quiet table away from the mayhem. The waitress laughed, understanding where I was coming from and regretfully said 'no' The only free dining area was next to them.
I was chilled when the shouting rose to a cacophony of sound interspersed with the wimpy 'shhhh's' coming from their mothers mouths. I was chilled when I realised that everyone was having to talk louder to be heard.
However then it happened.
My partner called me from her Bungee Jumping lesson. I tried to talk to her and even she could hear the noise.
It then happened.
I blew!!!
I blew big time!!!!
In a loud voice I told the Mum's that it was a restaurant not a Creche and if they wanted to shout and want their kids to play, then have lunch on the park....
It went deathly quiet in the restaurant.
The 'noise' as one, all got up to leave, but one mother dared to cross me? Some deftly placed words were all I needed and I have to say, I quite enjoyed it.
When they had left, I could hear folk saying 'Tsk tsk noisy people' 'They should have had more control'
Yet no one, apart from this Muppet, dared to say anything?
I have to be honest, that afterwards I regretted it. especially when I told the woman to look outside the box, not live in it??
I don't have kids. But if I did, they would be brought up to have respect for other people and I hope that I would still be aware of others around me?
The pleasant relaxed feeling is slowly seeping away. Oh joy. So my message today is.
Never ever go to bed angry.
Stay up and fight!!!!