Sinister: I wandered one day while sober

[Robert Brennan]

Going out in London is a great way to relieve oneself
of all that troublesome weighty money.  It's an
unfortunate side-effect of being over twenty-five that
the designers of bars assume your ideal environment is
a multi-level labyrinthine enormo-bar/club thing with
piped chart music.  But then it wasn't my birthday - I
couldn't choose the venue.  We worked out it was
cheaper to get drunk on the house wine rather than the
(bottled) beer.  They actually showed me the bottle
for approval before opening it!

By the way, the football:  What a load of shite!  I'd
have walked out after the first half and gone to the
pub if I hadn't already been in one.

The next day I was hungover, tired and less disposed
towards talking to people.  I took my leave of the
small group of friends who I like and some mere
aquaintances about whom I'm ambivalent.  I travelled
into London with another of the Mere Aquaintances who
I've now decided is lovely.  I have a thing for girls
with big dark eyes who can employ the word "slacker"
with sincerity and accuracy.  We chatted about stuff
-her boyfriend is a marine currently in the
middle-east although not at this point directly
involved in the goings-on - before parting ways at
Waterloo.  I went to Camden and bought one of the Love
& Rockets books I didn't have.  By now it was shedding
down with no plans to stop.

Gordon dropped a lengthy and diverse post in which he
mentioned "the big yin's banana boots" which brought a
smile to my face.  The rest of the post was good too.

Halfway home my train magically turned into a coach. 
There was a radio on board which told me that bombs
had started falling on Kabul.  The coach went silent
while Mr. Blair spoke forcefully and eloquently like
he always does.  Mr. Bush spoke awkwardly and made me
think my ears had gone funny.  

I began to think of cities laid waste and human
suffering.  I wanted to think of things that didn't
make me feel like the world was bigger and uglier than
I could handle.  If it had occurred to me, then I
would've thought of the banana boots.  Selfishly I
thought of the girl with the big brown eyes -
presumably someone else far away was doing the same
thing.  Fuck knows what she was thinking.

Robster

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