Crowley has plenty of things to be crabby about, not least of which is the fact that summer is starting to come to a close, picking up and slouching off towards next year before September can come along and book it for loitering. The forecast for the next week, though, is still just about acceptable, so what's currently occupying the top few slots on his list is the fact that Aziraphael, with all his understated, tweedy reserve, is being utterly and absolutely insufferable about that
flower show thing. The forecast for that is pretty good too, which is bad (if you follow). Sunshine and rainbows belong in the sky where Crowley can lounge about beneath them, not emanating smugly from the other side of the breakfast table.
Thus, faced with the fairly simple choice of going mad or going out, Crowley has relocated his Friday night to one of Milliways' better people-watching tables and is picking at a meal of fried paradoxes and wine with an indefinable air of
Bah. Humbug.(There's a newspaper on the table in front of him, opened to the offending article. Thorn Cross Young Offenders Institution, be prepared for an onslaught of low-grade, slowly-demoralising evil. Crowley's thinking a mild outbreak of gastroenteritis coupled with an untimely plumbing disaster, and then seeing how it goes from there. We're looking into the abyss, here, people.)