It's quite funny you ask me about special occasions because I like the theatre. I love musicals and we touched, I always say if I write a book up, call it “My Search for a Comfortable Chair” because I've yet to find one really, you know, and if I want to go to the theatre you know, make sure plan well in advance and make sure that we get seats from the end so you've got plenty of leg room because I have, if my legs are trapped I've had it and I don't know whether it's psychological.
I mean I know they have to have space for them, but as I say I don't know if it's psychological or not but if I were somewhere where there wasn't a lot of leg room I would like be really in agony and I would have to think “I've got to go out”, you know, so always plan ahead like that and make sure that we've got seats in the theatre where we know we can easily move so that if we want to get up and stretch, you know, that we can do that without disturbing anybody else.
So there's always a lot of thought goes into it. If I'm going to say for instance, New Year's Eve, because I love New Year's Eve, we always go to a special dinner for that.
I would have my outfit planned well in advance so that I haven't got to think “Ooh what am I going to wear” so that I'd know what I was going to wear and as for the evening I would definitely rest all day so that I could make sure that I would enjoy it. As for when we get there and what the situation is seating's like it's pot-luck really. You know, you don't know. If I'm going anywhere and I do know the people I would just say “Do you mind if I sit in that chair” you know.
That's as I'm saying, now I don't care. I mean everybody that I know anyway personally knows about my back so you know they go “Are you okay?” or something you often see me doing is if I'm somewhere and it's a right grotty old chair is you see me putting my handbag in my back because you know that, to have one of those little things that you put in your back is wonderful and... or what to say to somebody, you know, “Do you mind if I have a cushion?” because putting that in your back makes a lot of difference.
Because the thing is if you're, if you're going somewhere for, say, you are going out to dinner with somebody or you're going to something it really is horrible if you haven't got a comfortable chair because I said you know I hold the record for doggy bags. So I would just... yeah I do prepare in as much as I would definitely make sure that I have a nice rest in the afternoon so that by the time the evening comes. |
