As part of my post Christmas health binge, I've resumed something I started a couple of years ago - walking the South West Coast Path. I haven't got very far in all that time; I'm still only in Dorset, but wtf, so I took the train down to Weymouth on Saturday & walked all around Portland (a place I used to know very well as I spent a lot of time there as a youth as it happens).
Anyway, on the way back I was thinking about how much it had changed since I was last there when I was presented with a far from pleasant phenomenon that has not changed much over the years; the presence of the obligatory lunatic on a train journey. He got on at Dorchester & as soon as he was on he sunk to his knees and started punching the air shouting "I f***ing gert made it" over and over again. There were only a few people on this train & I was the only one dumb enough to make eye contact so he made a bee line for me and plonked himself down opposite. I was then lumbered with him all the way to Castle Cary talking about the decline of the provision of tables in British Rail rolling stock over the past 20 years. I was inclined to agree with him though because had there been another table on that cattle truck I could have moved and got away from him.
I seem to attract these people
Anyway, on the way back I was thinking about how much it had changed since I was last there when I was presented with a far from pleasant phenomenon that has not changed much over the years; the presence of the obligatory lunatic on a train journey. He got on at Dorchester & as soon as he was on he sunk to his knees and started punching the air shouting "I f***ing gert made it" over and over again. There were only a few people on this train & I was the only one dumb enough to make eye contact so he made a bee line for me and plonked himself down opposite. I was then lumbered with him all the way to Castle Cary talking about the decline of the provision of tables in British Rail rolling stock over the past 20 years. I was inclined to agree with him though because had there been another table on that cattle truck I could have moved and got away from him.
I seem to attract these people
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