bits and pieces.
nothing important and mostly overheard.
from the radio: while going on about the university boat race the commentator was going through all the members of the boat. he had done this, he was that, he had been here, what he had done last year etc etc. for one chap it was all about how he had overcome health problems "last year he was battling testicular cancer and now he is stroking..."
i bet he is.
furiously and happily hoping to gush like a champagne bottle. perhaps that is an image we should all forget.
in the beigel shop there is an altercation between denim clad shifty chap with a long knife scar on his cheek and the rake thin east european assistant. he claimed he had given her a tenner, she said a fiver. lots of i only had two tenners on me and it would be folded in two blah blah from him. lots of no you only gave me a fiver from her. back and forth, back and forth. small jewish owner eventually joins in going on about how he has just done the till takings and that there was no tenner from him in there besides, he continued, why would i lie i have £1800 takings today why do i need to cheat you out of five pounds. demin scarface gives up.
one of the other customers pipes up "i didnn't see what he handed you, if i had done i would have dived in to back you up."
nice one fellah, i am sure she appreciated the sentiment.
lads in the coffee shop. all chatting large about what they have done over the week. this deal, that deal and another deal. a big dealio kind of week. winners all. then they are planning the night out on the town. watch the game, drink a pint and then well the night is young kind of thing.
except for two of them:
"i'll be heading off to catch the train"
"you'll be heading off early?"
"yeah i'll be heading off"
"you can't head off early"
"no i will be heading off to catch the train"
"well if you are heading off then i am heading off" turning to the other two "we'll be heading off to catch the 9.40pm train."
which considering it was 8pm and they needed to get to euston (i won't even go into the discussion they had about how to spell euston) that didn't leave them long to have a big night.
guess they all headed off early.
nothing important and mostly overheard.
from the radio: while going on about the university boat race the commentator was going through all the members of the boat. he had done this, he was that, he had been here, what he had done last year etc etc. for one chap it was all about how he had overcome health problems "last year he was battling testicular cancer and now he is stroking..."
i bet he is.
furiously and happily hoping to gush like a champagne bottle. perhaps that is an image we should all forget.
in the beigel shop there is an altercation between denim clad shifty chap with a long knife scar on his cheek and the rake thin east european assistant. he claimed he had given her a tenner, she said a fiver. lots of i only had two tenners on me and it would be folded in two blah blah from him. lots of no you only gave me a fiver from her. back and forth, back and forth. small jewish owner eventually joins in going on about how he has just done the till takings and that there was no tenner from him in there besides, he continued, why would i lie i have £1800 takings today why do i need to cheat you out of five pounds. demin scarface gives up.
one of the other customers pipes up "i didnn't see what he handed you, if i had done i would have dived in to back you up."
nice one fellah, i am sure she appreciated the sentiment.
lads in the coffee shop. all chatting large about what they have done over the week. this deal, that deal and another deal. a big dealio kind of week. winners all. then they are planning the night out on the town. watch the game, drink a pint and then well the night is young kind of thing.
except for two of them:
"i'll be heading off to catch the train"
"you'll be heading off early?"
"yeah i'll be heading off"
"you can't head off early"
"no i will be heading off to catch the train"
"well if you are heading off then i am heading off" turning to the other two "we'll be heading off to catch the 9.40pm train."
which considering it was 8pm and they needed to get to euston (i won't even go into the discussion they had about how to spell euston) that didn't leave them long to have a big night.
guess they all headed off early.
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