Cheery on A Winter's Morning?

It is absolutely freezing. However, everyone seems to be in an almost cringeworthy cheerful mood this morning. Mostly, 6am is a time where people are rather grumpy and harrumph a lot at the idea of another working day that lies ahead of them.

But this morning was rather different. Every single customer had a noticeable smile on their face from 5am onwards, the morning staff that come in were cracking jokes and laughing a lot and even the Goddess of All Evil was happy this morning. That really is a rarity. She was joking and laughing along with the rest of them, which makes me think, have I missed something here?

I can't think of anything pleasant coming up. Maybe it's the fact they all get an extra hours sleep on Saturday night, (by the way, that extra hour you all get, will be spent working for me!), or maybe its the prospect of Halloween? But any adult, normally, is fed up at the idea of kids coming knocking on your door demanding pleasantries with a punishment of eggs on your window if you fail to coincide... So what is it?!

I can't work it out. When I left work to come home, admittedly with a smile on my own face but that's more because I didn't get the usual early morning grumpiness that I usually recieve, I came home to find that Father Mitten had gone already and Mother Mitten was awake, doing the hoovering. Now, she may have just lost it, or she is very busy at the moment, and she admitted, also with a laugh and a smile on her face, that it is the latter. But these things deserve a frown or a grumpy attitude not a smile!? What am I missing?!?

Ok, I give up. Something must have happened this morning to make everyone so cheery and maybe I will find out later, or maybe it is just, "one of those things".

I bet it won't last long. I'll go to work tonight, thinking that everyone is happy and I'll be greeted with a bunch of sodding grumpy gits and then the Goddess of All Evil will blame me for a speck of dust that has appeared on the floor and things will be back to normal. HURRAH!

I still don't get it though.

Cya x