good will and all that
I work on the market on a saturday and walk given the distance. The other saturday i was making my way to work at 6:30am and saw a frosted guy huddled into himself on the other side of the street, no doubt a friday night product as he was too well dressed (clean t shirt and jeans) to be a tramp i thought, and probably quite hypothermic by now, i was thinking of crossing the road to take him to the market, warm him up and send him on his way. Drawing level with him on the other side of the road he started shouting to himself, not at me as he'd turtled himself under his t shirt along with both arms to keep warm, I figured he was probably tripping or still raucously drunk and didn't feel like helping him after all as the usual roadsweep wasn't out that morning, and hence unable to save me from a man under the impression that I was a giant purple monster... i kept on walking. Half an hour later the same bloke turns up on the market, now with head and arms removed from said t shirt and proceeds to steal a wallet from the leather goods stall (maybe he thought it had money in it?), the owner of the pitch walked after him and whisked him around, asking him politely "excuse me old bean, would you be so kind as to hand back my unpaid goods?", the chap then proceeded to throw a punch at the trader who headbutted him. The ensuing brawl ended 10 seconds later with six traders on the top of the guy telling him to "piss off home mate", being the market the police weren't called, but i think it was still technically a crime? I can't be asked to help people anymore anyway, lesson learnt
(so_im_cynical, Tue 19 Feb 2008, 14:59, Reply)