I think it was Holly GoLightly who coined the phrase, the mean reds and I reckon everyone suffers from it. Someone asked me what I meant when I used the term recently so to put it simply, it's IPS, Irritable personality syndrome. For some unknown reason you feel scratchy and snarky and just down right grumpy. It knows no colour and doesn't discriminate between sexes. No one knows why it happens or whether there's a cause and just as quickly as it descends on you, it can disappear.

The mean reds.

Now heaven help the unfortunate man who encounters a woman with the double whammy of the mean reds AND PMT. Hell hath no fury...

Col, my housemate made the misguided decision to take the piss out of me when I was doubled up in agony AND suffering the double dose.

Col: See it's all right for girls, they can pull a sickie every month and claim it's their period".

Poor misguided fool. Obviously I went ballistic and steam was actually jetting out of my ears...

PPQ: Yadah yadee yadah haemorrhaging blah blah blah you try it yadee yadah it's not a barrel of fun etc etc.

Obviously, this tirade was far more detailed and graphic and needless to say he went beetroot.
Hah, that'll learn him.

So my mood carried on like this for a couple of days. But two things really lifted me...one was my blog mentor's advice re: my bout of writer's block, and the other was my Unlucky buddy's response to my terse e-mails yesterday...

PPQ: What in HELL'S NAME is WRONG with HALOSCAN?????!!!!! Sorry, must be the pmt!

Unlucky: No, I don't think your PMT can be responsible for Haloscan going tits up. It's much more likely to be due to some technical problem.

Laugh? I nearly shat my pants!

(With deepest most abject apologies to Derek & Clive for theft of material)

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