Woe is me, for I am as a woman bereft of chilli seeds - but not many.
Slightly saddened am I, and a bit bemused.
For behold, the pot in which I was to grow my chilli plants,
which I bought for just a quid from Poundland
is empty of chilli seeds
and the contents are incomplete.
There are the little pads of coir compost on which I was to scatter the seeds
Behold the little plastic dish in which to place the compost
But there are no seeds
The sachet is not there
The pot is bereft
and life is not in it.
I am the victim of the world's most low-value crime
and also quite a long-term one.
For who thieves a small sachet of chilli seeds thinking to fence it on the black market?
Where is the cut-price shop selling tiny sachets containing few seeds?
Woe unto they who cannot put their hands into their pockets for a pound to buy a packet of seeds
And would rather source their greenhouse comestibles by thievery and deceit.
May wrath burn against them
but only mildly
Like unto an chipotle or an jalapeño
and not like unto the Scotch Bonnet
or the Carolina Reaper, which scorcheth the nether regions the day after consumption like the very fires of Gehenna.
May those who steal very small sachets of chilli seeds stub their toes very slightly when they go to bed at night.
May they have forget where they have lain their glasses
remembering not that they are on top of their heads.
May their remote controller run out of batteries
just when Pointless is on the other channel.
May they wake up five minutes before their alarm goes off
and then fall asleep again, only to be awakened shortly afterwards.
May Windows install updates two minutes before their important Zoom meeting.
May their hair dye be just one shade out of what they expected.
Or - if male - may they go bald two weeks earlier than they would otherwise expect.
May the door bell ring when they are in the bath
and the Yodel delivery agent throw their package over the fence
But the box not be too badly damaged
and the goods inside basically OK.
So may they have minor frets
and lesser inconveniences
all the days of their lives.
Or at least for a couple of weeks.
What about all the plagues of Egypt?
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