We just got back from a walk. It’s been a long weeks – I reckon I’ve produced close to 15000 words over the last few weeks, and I needed a break. So we went into town. The local scallies had just been set free from school. We were on the main road, when one fat little shit thought that it would be rather big to mock the guy in the wheelchair.

Perhaps I’m too proud these days. I have a degree, and with luck I’ll soon have a master’s, but when these kids mock me it’s as if to say ‘you deserve no respect because you’re in a chair.’ I get so angry. Why should we have to take this abuse, in these days of equality?

He was a fat little shit.