Categories: uncategorized
Tags: foundspeech, trains
Date: 22 February 2008 14:37:39
Overheard on a platform at Waterloo Station:
"All I do all day is stand here and blow the whistle. I dress up like a fool and stand around on the platform and blow a whistle"
[A middle-aged bearded Railway Servant, as we would have called them a century ago]
Overheard on the train:
"Just imagine walking up and down Oxford Street pretending to be hats and dogs"
[That attracted my attention. I really very much wanted it to be "hats and dogs" not "cats and dogs". Imagine the unconfined nature of my joy when the reply came:]
"We should do it! Dress up as Monopoly pieces!"
[Two teenage girls with very short skirts and too much makeup who looked as if they were enjoying their half-term. Though they then went on to spoil the general aura of post-modern anti-consumerist Situationism with:]
"Have you seen my MySpace profile this week? You saw X on my friends list?"
"X Y? Yeah, but I didn't look at HIS profile!"
"His picture is SO GAY!!!! He's like, a goth, he's using this goth profile!"
"But he's such a chav!"
"Yeah, he's a real chav. He listens to NU METAL!"