It's STRANGE out there

[Roboframer]

Took my second train ride in about 15 years today - ticket guy knew I was new at the game when I asked for a day return and when he asked me where to - I said "Back here of course - you pillock!"

Quite impressed with the trains, on time, fast, quiet (with maybe too many pre-recorded announcements though) and clean.

But the people - what's happened to the people? Everyone has earpieces in and all around you you can hear that tinny "Tssk tssk tsskytssk Tssk" then "Drrrrrrrrrrring" "HELLO"

"DE Dah De Dah" "Hello" Everyone's so important these days.

A guy sitting bang opposite me talking very loudly in to his phone - whinging about his managers - too many meetings, how do they get any work done - blah blah. I honestly felt that he wanted everyone to know he held an important position in his company - he looked like your average bin man to me!

Guy across from me has like a tiny laptop facing him on the table between the seats - with wires coming out of it to his ears via a small box on his chest - I think he's watching a film, there's something like a memory stick dangling from his neck too and his mobile is next to the screen thingy.

Then we go through a tunnel - only a short one - come out and everyone shouts "HELLO" in unison.

I felt obliged to get my own mobile out and fiddle with it, just incase I was taken for some sort of mobile/ipod-less weirdo.

Then I had a brainwave - (actually I read it somewhere) set my phone to 'sounds' ready to play my ringtone (which is a really stupid one) wait for next tunnel - set it off and pretend to be speaking to someone in the tunnel with no problems at all.

Bottled out though - yeah, they'd know that trick and ridicule me all the way to Clapham Junction.

Coming back the train was stuffed - wanted to give my seat up for a lady with nothing in her ears - but there were too many of 'them' around.

[Moglet]

I ran away from that world and became a framer...