In an auction house
back in the heady days of John Major's reign of mediocrity I was in a local auction house with a mate. I was sent off to the sandwich bar to get something for lunch. I joined the queue of about 9 people and perused their list of options.

I then become aware of someone joining the queue behind me, and with a thick accent (which I've never been able to place) he says "tsk, look at the queue, this'll take for friggin' ever." in that sort of talking to myself but loud enough to garner a comment from other people. I look round and it's shadow cabinet member and Jaguar dealership botherer John Prescott.

I reply, "You ought to have brought a packed lunch, I nearly did"
"Yeah, to keep me going while waiting to be served here" he says.
If he'd have been a regular nobody, I'd have left it at that, but I thought that seeing I voted for him in 1992, I said "I doubt you'll waste away during the 5 mins it'll take to be served"

He chuckled and we had a short but interesting conversation. Nice guy, knew his stuff and is completely opposite to how he's portrayed in the media. He lives about half a mile from me and drives a very nice Jag XJS, which was my dream car as a kid in the early 80s.
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