Are you an optimist or pessimist?

[meriad]

Just pondering....

I have a friend, S . S had a call from the vet the other day reminding her that one of her cats was overdue his boosters so appointment made for today. S doesn't drive so always books a cab to get here there and then when she's finished she calls to book another one to get her home, or would catch a bus.

So today; cab for the way there is booked but she mentioned that she may need to catch a bus back as she doubted she'd get a cab at short notice. So my reply was
"hopefully it should be OK as I'd have thought lower demand at the moment?"

her reply
"I'm guessing there are probably fewer cab drivers as well as less demand"

S definitely is more of a glass is half empty kind of person whereas I'm generally glass half full type

What are you?

[Workingman]

Generally glass half full. If it is half empty it is because I have already drunk from it.

[jenniren]

I tend to be a glass half full person, E's definitely half empty.

[Kaz]

Half full, mostly.

Slightly off-topic, but how do you socially distance in a cab? I would have thought cabs would be off the road at the moment

[JoM]

Probably half empty. Experience tells me that it doesn’t pay to be too optimistic, not in our family anyway. When something is going well there always seems to be a big fat disappointment around the corner.

However, I’d have said the same about the taxi as you did Ria

[Workingman]

Kaz, I did notice that the ones my elderly neighbours book when they go shopping now have a screen between the driver and the rear seats. No front seat passengers allowed, apparently. A lot of the side loaders - the party mini-buses - have had them for ages and also the no front passenger rule due to a spate of driver muggings and 'runners' a few years back.

[Kaz]

Ah, that makes sense.

[TheOstrich]

Probably the same as Jo. I'm an intrinsic worrier and always waiting for the next thing to go wrong ....

[cromwell]

I'm a worrier too by nature. But over the last few years I've become more fatalistic. What will be will be; hopefully it will be good.

[Osc]

Glass half full, definitely