My older daughter, who lives in Bristol, (and is available for commissions [loves doing portraits and paints beautifully, as well as draws, should you be looking for the perfect present]) found three young entrepreneurs outside her house yesterday, selling compliments for 20p. "I bought one", she said and "they wrote 'lovely hair and nice attitude'. Awww ... They were also selling jokes for 20p . They were saying 'buy one compliment for 20p, and one joke for 20p and you get a free laugh!'"
So far so good. But, in my daughter's words, there was:
"a sad ending to the story: Came out of my house about an hour after I took this picture, to see the girls running merrily up to various pedestrians on my street. They then approached a rather scruffy looking chap, cradling a bottle of chardonnay, they announced 'compliments for 20p!! feel good!' to the man, who stumbled out of their way, turned to them and shouted 'FUCK OFF YOU STUPID LITTLE CUNTS!!' . He stumbled off down the road. There was a shocked silence... the girls looked deflated and a bit frightened. I tried to rectify the situation slightly by shouting back at the man something like 'DON'T BE SO RUDE!', but i think it was pretty ineffective... a little bit of innocence was lost today in bristol :-(."
Poor girls. They should stick to Pouilly-Fumé drinkers in the future.
ReplyDeleteAh the sophistication of Lewes - I don't think they have that in my daughter's part of Bristol (or in my parts of Canberra and/or Budapest, come to that). We can only dream.
Delete"Miserable old coot" as my father would say.
ReplyDeleteHello, you mad loon - woke up to my daughter asking, 'Who the hell is Geoff Shera and what is Bangalee Bibliotheque, mum?' Her horizons need widening evidently.
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