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I laughed out loud on the train tonight. Not a little giggle, but a full-blown fnar, complete with powerful nose snort that made the three rows ahead and three rows behind turn around to look. This went on for at least three pages of my book, and I was forced to stop reading for a moment to calm myself down.
Not quite as embarrassing as the man with the prosthetic leg who fell out of the train at Chelmsford yesterday and half dropped his false limb on the track, although I think he could perhaps have been a little more gracious towards the people who picked him up off the floor, especially as he seemed totally incapable of moving on his own.
So I feel I may have got away with it.
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4 Responses to “Etiquette”
What book was it? Sounds like a good read to me.
• Posted at 8:58 am on June 26th, 2007 by alex.Nik, you can’t tell us that without mentioning the book?
• Posted at 6:17 pm on June 27th, 2007 by James.It was The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. Very funny in parts - perhaps his funniest - and in other places utterly fascinating, such as the extent and effect of US nuclear testing during the 1950s. I’ve still not finished it yet, so I’ll reserve judgement, but it’s large type on small pages, so I don’t think it’ll be long.
• Posted at 1:19 pm on July 3rd, 2007 by Nik.Leave a Reply
I am forever embarrassing myself on public transport. Yesterday, instead of drinking my morning coffee like a normal person, I literally threw it all over my chest and left shoulder. I had to teach all day looking like a cut-price Jackson Pollock installation.
Weirdly, none of my students even mentioned it.
• Posted at 12:02 pm on June 23rd, 2007 by Jenny.