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Posted - 16/12/2019 : 08:19:35 I wanted to get back to my read (Bernie Gunther in Post-War Berlin), but what happened next compelled me to add to my little book of observations and write this as I thought it was telling. The ticket collector came for 'all tickets and passes' and when he had roused 'the guys' (boys of 17 I pitched them at) from their stoned slumber, they immediately volunteered, complete with Beavis and Butt head snigger, that they 'got the machine wrong' and both had to pay an extra £1.80 each as they had chosen to pay for a shorter route. Alpha piped up and said 'ticket' could keep the 20p's (thanks guys) as Beta was too 'baked' to get a sentence out. And by the time I have finished this paragraph both had gone 'sleepy-bys' again, supine top-to-tail across the four seats, rasta addidas on the seats like lords unchallenged, unadmonished.
I have to admit that I felt compelled to blat Alpha on the back-side with my book and wake him up at St James so they could alight. And out they gratefully shambled. In the carriage, we all found it quite amusing. Someone expressed mild chagrin that they hadn't thanked anyone for waking them up. But as I say / said, "We've got to be thankful they are that out of it that they don't have the rebellion in them to riot!" Sage nodding from the under 40's, confusion from the over.
