I am really quite jealous of the rich human material that Disgruntled Commuter has available -blogging no chore-especially on what used to be called London Transport. Waiting for Capital Connect ( a name for a bank rather than a rail company surely)I was joined on my bench atg Finsbury Park by a large guy, jeans and boots, paint covered denim jacket, bristly, a couple of tattoos-what my maiden aunt would have called a rough looking type. But what this rural yokel from the sticks of Berwickshire found riveting was the exquisite diamond in his left ear lobe.No cheapie this-Tiffany(Southgate branch) perhaps. I did not enqire nor could I see his other lobe. In B-u-T the populace would have stared, in Hutton passed by on the other side. No notice taken here.
He boarded the Welwyn Garden City CC and his seat was taken by a Hasidic Jew; locks, garb, black Homburg etc as you would expect; no diamond ear decoration that I could see. He was enjoying his lunch pulled deep out of a plastic bag bearing the legend Fast Breakfast All Day. (it was 2.15 pm)
Looked very good. I may have been wrong about the ham but not the bacon.
Would not see that at the No 32 bus stop in Golden Square. Not in a month of Sabbaths
