Smile.

'Smile' they said 'things could be worse'. So I smiled and sure enough things got worse.

In the charity bookshop today a customer came in who systematically worked his way from A to Z through every book on every shelf. Every now and again he would pull out a book and add it to an ever increasing pile. Every now and again he would consult a dossier the size of a washing machine manual he had compiled and mounted on a plastic spine.

I watched with pleasure as the stack of books grew.

After a couple of hours he approached me and told me the pile of books were not stuff he was buying, instead they were misfiled and should either be moved to the children's section, history, or memoir.

You have to laugh....