Let's look at irony.
John was stood in the queue at the bank, just one living person serving customers, the rest just machines. John was pissed off, he was on his lunch hour from work and hadn't had his lunch yet. By the time he got served and hurried back to the office he had 7 minutes to eat his lunch. Boy was John pissed off.
After his lunch John's boss drops an uncompleted file on his desk demanding John completes it before he goes home. It wasn't even John's work but the person who's job it was had phoned in sick so John had to do it. As John wearily starts going through the file the fire alarm goes off.....a fire drill.....f*cking brilliant thinks John, just what I need!
John is now stood in a queue filing down the stairs, there are over 700 employees in John's office and people are moving slow. John is getting more pissed off by the minute. When finally everybody gets outside and gets counted he joins the slower moving queue going back to their offices.
John manages to finish the extra work 4 hours after he should have finished, there are only cleaners left in the building when he leaves. At least I've missed the rush hour traffic John says to himself. He starts his 30 minute drive home tired and extremely pissed off. On joining the motorway John is met with the horrendous sight of tail lights, there's been an accident....many more expletives eminate from John....he just sit's there fuming in stationary traffic....for another 90 minutes.
John arrives home in the early hours. Totally pissed off he gets in bed to grab 2 hours sleep before getting up for work again, he had to be in early for an appraisal. John is so stressed he can't sleep. He gets up and heads for work too angry to even eat breakfast. Back on the motorway John's worst nightmare.....the traffic is again stationary, a lorry has spilled it's load....it takes John 2 hours to get to work and he he finally arrives he is summoned to he managers office for an almighty bollocking for being late.... "You should have checked your sat nav" his boss rages......"you could have re-routed and got here quicker, you are so disorganised!!!" his work appraisal was done at that meeting, it wasn't good.
Tired and hungry John is stood in a long queue at the supermarket, there is one checkout operator on and she only has one speed....slow. John just want's to eat, he is by now just a wreck of a man.
John has had enough of this....the rat race, the constant queueing, everything...... "Fuck it!!!" Thinks John...."I've had enough of this shit!"
....at that point John decided that life was for living, he wasn't going to partake in the rat race any more. He sold his house and bought a camper van. John was going to live his dreams and do what he had always wanted to do. He had made a cool £50,000 profit on his property and that was enough to pay for his lifetime ambition..... To be on top of the world.....to climb Mount Everest!!!
John paid his 50 grand fee and finally managed to get to Mount Everest!!!
Here is a picture of John living his dream. John is half way down with the blue top and yellow hat. If you can't spot him it's because he's the one on his knees crying.
(This story was inspired after reading this article.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/29/no-self-respecting-climber-would-call-climbing-telegraph-readers/