Drinking...son cosas de la vida

Went out to The Fox last night in the Shoreditch/Old Street area, and basically had a few jars whilst enjoying the mild london night. Despite the awful review in the link I posted, it's a nice pub, kind of scummy, but that's east london for you.

Beforehand whilst I was searching for a cash machine in nearby streets, and then coming to the conclusion that it'd be easier to score coke than draw some cash in east london, I spied T4's very own Miquita Oliver walking down Great Eastern/Old Street area.

She was walking alone, I was with a friend, and as I spied her from close range, licked my lips, and tried to make eye contact. She walked right past. She must have had the sun in her eyes or been distracted, or something. Next time babe, or just email me.

Found a cashie eventually, and strolled to the pub. Drank some Addlestones cider and was delighted to see a couple of guys busking nearby. They were dressed like barbershop quartet singers or something, and played the rolling stones paint it black, some beatles song, and I also think that song from the felix advert. They were duly applauded and paid some change from the crowd.

Later in the night, a homeless guy comes up to me and my group of friends, and asks for some change. I sometimes throw some their way, but usually don't. Plainly because in central london, I get asked about 10 times a day etc. So he asks "sorry mate" I glumly reply, and my friend says (without malice or arrogance) "Sorry, I only have a card today".

Now, this guy seriously didn't mean it in a cocky way. He just literally meant he had no change. But what an awful excuse to give the poor homeless guy. He probably went away wanting to gouge out our eyes. Seeing as pretty much everywhere takes chip n pin, how long until big issue sellers and homeless accept it? Not long imo.

On the way home I stopped by a nearby burger king, to witness a man on the floor with a few people around him, 10 police officers surrounding them, a guy in cuffs, and a small pool of blood near his nose. He didn't look too hurt tbh, just like he was punched and also quite drunk. I was told by a nearby drunk that he had touched some girl and got punched. I nodded at the drunk, and decided to ignore his comment completely and decipher my own theories of what happened.

As I was devising my first theory (that he was a retired human trafficker confronted by one of his original imports - i.e. a child he trafficked - and got punched), a police officer asked (politely) that I run along and go elsewhere.

Fair enough, I thought to myself, it's not nice to stand around and watch these things, but I am a bit of a voyeur.

So I step back quite a bit, behind their cordon, outside of earshot of what the people surrounding the guy are saying and out of everyones way. As I'm about to go completely), another police officer walks over and shoves me away. "This isn't tv, go away" he says.

By now, I am so far away from the incident I don't even understand the need for this kerfuffle.

"Why shove me man? I was going"

"This isn't tv, get out of here or I'll arrest you" he threatens

"Arrest me for what?" I inevitably ask

And he barrels about 10 pointless offences at me.

"You know you won't do me for that, it's a waste of both our time. I'm going anyway" I say, inevitably...

As I walk off I hear him say "If I see you here again, I'll remove you from the vicinity", whatever that means.

It got me thinking, was I right or wrong? I'm unsure. Firstly, I understand that I shouldn't be standing there and watching (although I was quite far away by now), but to see a man lying on the floor, dazed but not too hurt, is a slightly fascinating sight. I just wanted to see if he would get up, or what would happen. I do however understand that I shouldn't have been doing this.

Secondly, the first police officer was polite, and after he told me to move, I did. I moved away from the area, and behind their cordoned off area. Again, I probably should have just gone home, but it was at this point that I had begun talking to some polish guy about what happened, where I basically told him what the drunk had told me.

Then came the shoving episode, and I ask who was wrong? Me - for not moving, or him - for thinking just because he wears a uniform he can shove me away from an area that ultimately I am legally allowed to be standing in (as it was not cordoned off).

Admittedly, I have this deep seated spite towards the police, as I feel they are more often than not overly aggressive to me, and I have witnessed some of my friends join the force, and become increasingly aggressive, right wing, and dare I say it - racist. I even have a black friend who is a copper and believe racial profiling is correct etc.

So I imagine that I probably could have been more passive in the situation, and if you're reading this officer, I apologise for annoying you. However, at least I'm not like most people who'll never question the police, just because they are wearing the uniform. I don't care about the uniform, I don't like people pushing me, whether it be a police officer, a friend, a random person, or my family. That's why I got annoyed.

So I walked a while to the next burger king, and cleared my head. On the train home I was sat next to this middle aged asian guy who seemed to keep staring at me. At first I thought it was just me, but no, he really was staring at me. He was sat on the same side of the train as me, and looking at a 45 degree angle, right at me. There was nobody sat within earshot of us, so I decided to try and startle him (as he was startling me a bit). so i say to him "hey, you ok?"

"yeah, you?" he asks back

"yeah. you remind me of someone...my dad" i say

he seemed a bit shocked at the comparison "really?" he replies

"yeah, aint seen him in years, but he teach me much. he teach me how i know when girls be on their period"

he laughed, and looked a bit scared at this point, but also a bit like he wanted me. So I decided to try and startle him.

"yeah" i continued, "he say, when my willy tastes weird son, thats cos your mother be on her period"

LOL at his face

LOOOOL

"son cosas de la vida" i finish, quoting 'naked lunch', which is probably what influenced me to just try and scare a random stranger. of course he was harmless, thats why I said it, I'm a pussy really. Why I even do these things...I was drunk...

unsurprisingly he stop staring at me too

son cosas de la vida...