What are our favourite tiny triumphs? - Henry McKean Reports
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Something else that we talked about earlier in the show was this study found that we love it apparently when plans suddenly get cancelled. I find that entirely depressing that that's the thing that people love more than anything else. They consider it a so-called tiny triumph. They love the Jomo, the joy of missing out.

One of the awful, awful things about modern society that people indulge in. Jomo, finding money in your coat pocket. I get that one. That was number two. Everybody likes that as a tiny triumph. Getting the last parking space. The small wins that cheer us up, in other words. Henry McKean has been asking people what pick-me-ups put a smile on their face. What small victories make your life worth living? When I find money in my pocket and I know I can have a good time with the lads on the weekend. Getting up.

The morning after night out and realising you haven't spent 100 quid in coppers. So that's a great feeling, realising you haven't spent 100 euro in coppers. Yes, because lots of mornings I get up, I look at the bank account and I could spend 150 euro. Do you like coppers? It's a good spot, yeah. And where's home for you? Longford. Myself and this man were up in the room there last night and we were making plans for today and we said...

Will we get up earlier or will we have a lie-in? He only said, he says we'll have a lie-in. It was a great achievement. I'm only getting up now, so it's great. So that's your tiny triumph? Yeah. I'm going to attack today now, so... Do you love Jomo, which is the joy of missing out? Do you like the idea of perhaps a party being cancelled? Yes, I get to stay home. Yeah. Sometimes if you're worried about an event and you just want to rest. My tiny triumph is I was really happy when the sun came out.

something as simple as the sun coming up, that cheers you up. Yeah, the good weather, like listening to a good song, something coming on on the radio. And you get a little bit of a hit. Yeah. Happy hit. Yeah. The sun coming out, I feel like that's really, you know, boosted my mood over the last while. So the good weather, that 10 days of good weather that

we had but it's not it's not even that just the longer days really helps it's not necessarily the weather it's just having that extra sunlight in the morning so that picks you up yeah exactly and i used to have a vitamin d deficiency as well so it kind of definitely actually helps and how did you find out you had a bit of a d i just got my blood test done and uh just normally always over something else and they told me i had a really really low vitamin d so you need it you need the sun i need the sun

I suppose last week was good now. We had a good bit of warm weather. So that really... Yeah, it's kind of nice, especially when you're coming up here. We have a good bit to do now. It's kind of coming into exam and study season, so plenty of assignments due and all that stuff. So I suppose when you're waking up and you're seeing that it's warm outside and you can take your breaks, it's a bit of fun. And where's home? Home is just near Cara in Kildare, so a bit of a trek up here, but it's all good. Any tiny triumphs in...

anything happy that cheers you up there good GAA club good local GAA club there with plenty of good footballers so I suppose that's we take pride in that

What sort of things make you happy? I'll admit there's some... I know if I'm in M&S and I'm there to buy maybe something like pork pies and they're yellow sticker, they're discounted, I'm buying them anyway, they're much cheaper. I'm thrilled. It's a little win. Any little wins going on in your life? Well, I've applied for my J1, this J1 in the summer camps in America, and I've actually just got my visa the other day, so that's kind of a little win for me. It took a while to get, so I'm happy about that, and...

Like you said, going to the supermarket and things are reduced. I'm actually making dinner for my family tonight, so hopefully I might get a few reduced things. And every week I do it on a Tuesday, so it's nice when you go in and maybe the beef or something is reduced a couple of euros.

Probably good weather. Nice weather. Yeah, nice weather as well. Finding money in my coat pocket as well. That's a good one, yeah. And do you find money much? Not that often, but when I do, it's very exciting. Like a five or a ten or a twenty? Twenty, usually, yeah. You've got random twenties in your coat pocket. So?

Sometimes, yeah. You leave it there to surprise yourself, maybe, yeah. Exactly. What else? I think mine has to be when I get the first round of Flannery's tickets for a fiver on a student Tuesday night. I have to be getting a Flannery's ticket for five euro before they sell out. And you get access. What else do you get for the fiver?

Well, you just get to go in and you get a ticket for very cheap and you can resell it if you want to for a serious amount of money, but you just get ahead of the crowd. And that's where you want to be on a Tuesday, in Flannery's? In Flannery's on a Tuesday, yeah. When you come up to the bus stop and the bus comes straight away instead of you having to wait 10, 15 minutes. And that's a tiny win? A very tiny one, but...

but a win nonetheless. A win nonetheless, so says that man speaking to Henry McKean. Seven chicken nuggets, says somebody else. I'm not a chicken nugget fan. You order them in sixes, is that it? Is that the idea? Okay.

Peter says, Peter on sound says, yeah, absolutely. He's horsed them into his mouth as we speak right there now. He's on to a sixth. He looks sad. There is no number seven. They're finished, Peter. Get over it. You should have bought nine. Or buy chicken tenders, Peter. You're an adult. You're an adult, for God's sake. Ciarán, finding a euro in a shopping trolley makes my day. That is a great kick out of finding a euro in a shopping trolley.

I still think what was the number two on the list was just finding money, paper money in a pair of trousers or a coat that you have more in the wild. That's great. It's just bonus money. You feel you can spend it on whatever you want because you had written it off. It didn't exist. That's my tiny triumph. I'm going with that one. The Hard Shoulder with Ciarán Cudahy. With the MG Hybrid and Electric range. Weekdays from 4 on Newstalk.

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