Eaten

Categories: london-life, rejoice-with-me, musings

Tags: insect bites, mobile phones, pacing.

Date: 25 August 2009 16:25:09

Something with which I disagree has been eating me in the night. Why is it that when you have insect bites, one or two of them always itch far more than the others, even when you keep re-applying bite ointment?

And another thing: why are men incapable of standing still when talking on a mobile or cordless phone? I watched a man on the platform at Edgware Road yesterday, talking animatedly into his mobile, and the whole time he was pacing to and fro, round and round. He must have made half a dozen circuits of the place where I was standing (never, of course, noticing me standing there). The Grouch does this too: if he talks, he has to pace. It doesn't occur in normal conversation, just when he's on the phone. Is there some mysterious gene that makes men do this? I've never seen it done by a woman.