cacophony

This day has been so awful I am staying up til midnight just to make sure it goes away. What do you do to cheer yourself up when you’re having a shocker?

My friend recently stayed interstate at the house of his old friend, who I have recently fallen out with. This ex-friend has piles of unwanted CDs by virtue of her job as a music reviewer. The reviewer girl and I had a major falling out this month and I’m still so mad at her I’ve just about written off the friendship.

My current friend came back to Melbourne with 20-odd discs from the reviewer’s collection that he thought I would like. And I do - they are really great records. (In fact, one of them I had until it was stolen from my car late last year.)

So here’s my dilemma: do I accept the CDs even though they came from a girl I am cranky with? And is it rude to refuse them when my friend went to the effort to choose them and bring them back to me?

Like Cold Chisel says, should I “mind taking charity from those that I despise?”