Reading, trees and abortions.
I've just got back from Reading Festival, and my neighbours were pretty interesting. First off were the bunch of army/ex-army/just wearing army surplus lads. All a bunch of psychos. The guy who set up the first tent moved like T-1000 from Terminator 2. He was angry, but in a scary, understated way, and his girlfriend was forever telling him to chill out. The rest weren't as psychotic, but were capable of being very angry when drunk.

Apart from the usual bunch of stoners and other druggies, we also had some right twats next to us. Thursday night my mate was kept up by two of them shagging (apparantly she faked it), and Friday night I was kept up at 4 a.m. by some decidedly feminine heavy breathing. Not something you want to hear when you're incredibly paranoid and desperately need sleep.

The rest of the twats started burning tents and gazebos on Sunday night. We were not impressed. Plastic smoke hurts your eyes, nose and lungs like buggery. They also blew up gas cannisters right next to our tents, and were constantly having their fires put out by stewards. Before all the burning kicked off, however, I asked the psycho armyish guy, "'scuse me mate, do you know if they're fucking with peoples tents?", and his reply was "If they are, I'll rip their fucking heads off".

All credit to him, he did barge over to them with his psycho mates and start screaming at them and stamping out the fire. The twats quietened down a bit after that.

Our other neighbour was the toilet. About forty portaloos, filled with five days piss and shit, and from what I saw in one of them, blood too apparantly. The smell was horrendous.

On another note, our back garden here at home shares a back fence with another house in the next road. Sometimes our trees get a bit tall and they ask us to trim them, and usually we comply. However, one year we were a bit lazy, and the guy threatened to sue us for not cutting down our trees. I'm not entirely sure what he was thinking, but he was slightly mental.

My road has an abortion clinic in it. I frequently see men sitting in cars, staring straight ahead with a mournful expression on their face. I laugh. We also get Christians from SPUC waving their signs around outside sometimes too. They just stand there and don't say anything. Quite disturbing when you're going for a walk in the morning to get a paper.
( Detrius521, Mon 29 Aug 2005, 19:32, Reply)