Printed below is part of an article I read in my paper this morning. Apparently thousands in the UK are logging on to a new web site to say "sorry" for any number of different things.
"When Jay Rayner started an apology website to help flog his new novel, The Apologist, he may have underestimated the British appetite for self-flagellation.
Certainly, he expected a few friends to log in. But after a few weeks of operation,
www.the-apologist.co.uk has turned into a national clearing-house for wrongs new and ancient, trifling and profound.
Thousands of Brits have fronted up to say sorry.
To a minister of state in Her Majesty's Government... I'm very sorry, I had carnal relations on the desk in your office with your private secretary... oh, and on your settee as well!" declares one supplicant
Calum: I'm sorry mate, about you being carted off to that psychiatric hospital," begins a more contrite correspondent, Rooster, who is apologising to a childhood friend for stitching him up in a youthful burglary 20 years ago.
"Alison: I'm sorry I didn't marry you," writes the heart-rending but concise C.
Another contributor confesses to responsibility for the giant and unflushable poo which horrified co-workers in his building 10 years ago.
Another confesses to doing something awful to food destined for Margaret Thatcher.
Rayner, whose real job is as restaurant critic for London's , The Observer, , now finds himself increasingly tied to his new occupation; harried curator of a website which is getting out of control.
"I seem to have stumbled across something," he concedes; after all, his gimmicky venture is being visited by tens of thousands a day, and apologies are being logged thick and fast. ......."
So why not start an A2K APOLOGY THREAD, I thought?
Here's your chance to say sorry to anyone you might ever have wronged or offended! Get the guilt off your chest & feel much better!
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