on dwarfs, malingerers and Bachelor's Row.....
People watching. It is addictive…worse than that, it is virtually pathological once you get into it!
I must confess to an almost morbid curiosity towards the outskirts of society, the comings and goings of these familiar yet strange (in many ways!) faces as they punctuate my daily routine or drift into view of my beady eye, unwittingly starring in their own quasi-fictional soap operas.
Where I live there is an alarming quantity of gruesome midgets, it’s a bit like ‘Willow’ on some days when they are clustered in their little herd (what is the collective noun for malign dwarfs?....a snipe of dwarfs, a pox of dwarfs…suggestions on a postcard please….) and sadly Happy, Bashful, Sleepy etc all appear to be drinking elsewhere leaving Grumpy, Haggard and Sleazy behind. Now, they might lead the most mundane, prosaic lives you could imagine but with a little over active imagination it all becomes rather interesting!!
Public transport provides especially rich pickings, there are a few regular faces to be had there….the angry weasel hat-man, Sergeant Bilko, ABSO Jones (on phone:‘yeah, alright bro, you got any drugs, innit?’) and the boy with the dead eyes….you can’t help but wonder where they drift off to and a part of you hopes it isn’t just to defrost a chicken kiev and some oven chips before a night in front of Corro but return to some elaborate comic book villain lair, like a cave hollowed behind the rosette on the Admiral’s hat on Nelsons Column with his left eye as a spy window over London or some subterranean network of tunnels and laboratories swarming with colour coordinating henchmen! Alas, I think the former is entirely more plausible! It would be far more interesting if Bachelor’s Row, stretched along the bar, all thinning hair and regret, consisted of the most Machiavellian and crazed criminal minds in the land, or a virtual Dr.Strangelove war room collected around their flat pints and peanuts but I may find myself being disappointed…it is not megalomania and world domination that flickers behind those eyes….or is it……?
I must confess to an almost morbid curiosity towards the outskirts of society, the comings and goings of these familiar yet strange (in many ways!) faces as they punctuate my daily routine or drift into view of my beady eye, unwittingly starring in their own quasi-fictional soap operas.
Where I live there is an alarming quantity of gruesome midgets, it’s a bit like ‘Willow’ on some days when they are clustered in their little herd (what is the collective noun for malign dwarfs?....a snipe of dwarfs, a pox of dwarfs…suggestions on a postcard please….) and sadly Happy, Bashful, Sleepy etc all appear to be drinking elsewhere leaving Grumpy, Haggard and Sleazy behind. Now, they might lead the most mundane, prosaic lives you could imagine but with a little over active imagination it all becomes rather interesting!!
Public transport provides especially rich pickings, there are a few regular faces to be had there….the angry weasel hat-man, Sergeant Bilko, ABSO Jones (on phone:‘yeah, alright bro, you got any drugs, innit?’) and the boy with the dead eyes….you can’t help but wonder where they drift off to and a part of you hopes it isn’t just to defrost a chicken kiev and some oven chips before a night in front of Corro but return to some elaborate comic book villain lair, like a cave hollowed behind the rosette on the Admiral’s hat on Nelsons Column with his left eye as a spy window over London or some subterranean network of tunnels and laboratories swarming with colour coordinating henchmen! Alas, I think the former is entirely more plausible! It would be far more interesting if Bachelor’s Row, stretched along the bar, all thinning hair and regret, consisted of the most Machiavellian and crazed criminal minds in the land, or a virtual Dr.Strangelove war room collected around their flat pints and peanuts but I may find myself being disappointed…it is not megalomania and world domination that flickers behind those eyes….or is it……?
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