Men...

.....complete muppets! Seriously!
Ok I will exclude you male blippers as I'm sure all of you have superb organisational and communicative skills - but the ones it's my misfortune to know  couldn't manage a proverbial in a brewery!
Let me explain!
Saturday is the masked Ball at Helston - Ebay Boy bought tickets and first London Boy then he invited me - I said no the first time, as it had been a wet and not totally positive experience earlier in the year, but for a reason I now can't remember, the second time I said yes, and have been vacillating between excitement and dread ever since! But it's indoors based in a theme park, so will be dry, good lights, the opportunity to dress up and do sexy vampire make -up ( or maybe just look like an old bat?!!) and a warm hotel bed and I just love hotel breakfasts! 
So - checked where London Boy and the friends he was coming with were staying so I could spend   as much time  with him as possible, only to find out once booked that Ebay Boy and Party Girl were staying in a different town! Ah well!  Quite a while later I  was given my ticket, by Party Girl - all systems go!
Yesterday Ebay Boy texted to say meet up in Falmouth first for pre-party warm up. I text London Boy - how far he asks. I check, basically a 30 minute triangle from Redruth, Falmouth, Helston, back to Redruth. "Oh" he texts back, his friend has booked bus tickets from Redruth at 6.50 to Helston, so "no!" Well this is the first time I've heard of bus tickets, so check online and text back, which route, as there were two, and presumed route 4 as this left at 6.50. No says London Boy, it's route 1, leaves at 6.55!!!Phew - mishap averted, good job I checked!
Met Colourful Mai on the allotment last night and we spoke about our lack of enthusiasm given she has been fighting a cold all week, her partner, DJ Boy, lost his job last week and her son his flat in Scotland where he is going to work soon. I also still have an unsettled stomach, just gripes thank heavens, but the old Shingle Tingle is back and my shoulder blade has that familiar bees are buzzing under the skin. A weekend of travelling and an all nighter are so not what I need right now!  But we looked on the positive, good dance, good photos, dressing up and each other! She was going straight to the event as they needed to get a good pitch in their van in which they will be sleeping - don't worry it's all kitted out to sleep in as she does lots of festivals! Apparently DJ Boy  and Ebay Boy had spoken but she hadn't seen her partner to see what the plan was, they don't live together. 
So later that evening a facebook message from Ebay Boy - he needs to give me another ticket. I presume for London Boy. No, he had bought one for him but London Boy didn't realise so his friend had bought all their  tickets, along with the infamous buspasses. So Ebay Boy had sold the spare online, but sent the buyer ticket no 5/6, which I already had, so rip that one up and print out no 6/6!!
I think you now get the picture?!
I then get a call on my mobile  from Ebay Boy to confirm I had received the link to the ticket to download it. Also although Ebay Boy and DJ Boy  had met, the fact of the lost job had not come up! Nor the fact Colourful Mai and he would meet us at the event!!!!
I mean seriously, all these forms of communication, text, email, mobile, and the fact Ebay Boy lives just on the other side of the village, and still a complete and utter shambles! So if you extrapolate from this the fact that men are in the top positions the worldover, no wonder the world is in such a mess - wouldn't happen if women were in charge or at the very least shared positions of power equally with men!
So,  am I going to rip up my original ticket, I don't think so!! I am not going all that way to discover Ebay Boy got it wrong and there are duplicate tickets floating around and I can't get in!!
P.S. you can see that although the males in this story are all over 50 I refer to them as boys!
P.P.S. What an amazing cloud formation there was in the evening! Rather like a flying/perched bird or swimming fish! Shame it wasn't like a flying pig as I think thats what is going to be needed for this weekend to turn out right!!!