It’s a bit conformist to define “normal” behaviour. As punk rockers we should be embracing the transgressive. Or are we ‘rebels without claws’? Anyway, what’s ‘normal’ behaviour in London?
I used to see a guy on the tube who either had Tourettes or was just aggressive, who used to mutter all sorts of profanities that only people around him could hear and then shout “bunch of cunts!” to the whole carriage. Always wore baseball cap and dark glasses. Then there’s the bloke who I see if I’m so late that I have to catch the 8.59 from Bromley South. You don’t notice him until you’re suddenly aware of a bloke motoring between about 4 carriages, bumping people and seemingly looking for a seat (there are usually lots of empty ones) but always harrumping and then moving at speed in the opposite direction. And then back again. He’s like an uneasy ghost but his behaviour is so extreme that people laugh at him rather than punch him.
I also used to have a temp in my team at work who told us that he was only temping until he joined the Paras. He used to go running at lunchtimes and weekends with a rucksack full of bricks, though he never seemed to get any bigger. His credibility dropped through the floor when another member of my team found out that all his clothes (moleskin trousers, etc) were bought for him by his mother at Harrods. He never made the Paras or even the TA (I still see him occasionally, off to his dogsbody’s job at a stockbrokers).Statistics: Posted by Johnny Anarchy — Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:42 pm
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