Friday 23 August 2013

The Baby, Tea, Shoes and the Drunken Chris




So today has been an exquisite day. I had the nephew around, a four month old baby. Now for a four month old baby , he seems pretty chilled , except when I hold him or go near him . Then he whines and moans. Why do babies whine so much?  it’s not like we can understand what it is he wants, if babies came out speaking English it would be far more productive.  To me my nephew looks to be ginger and his left eye noticeable bigger than his right. So to me it looks like he is noticing me judging his ginger hair and him feeling the self-cautious little baby starts to cry. Looks like from an early age our self-confidence is beaten down by small miniscule problems, perhaps that’s why in today’s society one word can throw you over the edge?

I also went to have some tea with my friend and we found this quaint coffee shop. The serves was godly slow, there were faster people in Ethiopia than in this shop. Maybe this is why Poland is stealing all our jobs? Anyway apart from waiting ten minutes for someone to realise we were waiting to be served and 20 minutes for this cup of tea, which had to admit was worth the wait. It had a potent fragrance and was at just the right temperature. You know when you make tea it’s too hot so you have that exciting 5 minutes for tea to reach optimum temperature to drink satisfyingly and if you miss that two minute window of opportunity, you’re sitting sadly with your cold cup of tea and you have to lie to your host and say “Yea its great!” when inside you’re longing to heat it because it just feels like ice. I also hate it when people put sugar and milk for me in tea, you don’t know how much I want a little to me could be a litter to you. And why is it when I say “Oh just one please” people take it as an opportunity to empty out the whole tub of sugar, I feel like I’m literally drinking diabetes. Diabetes taste like really sugary tea I feel my heart clogging, my heart might as well commit a heart attack just to save itself from this god awful tea. Regardless, to my original point about this coffee shop after we drank our tea and conversed in a great debate over is it nerdy to like super heroes. I for one don’t think so as it gives you a figure to look up to as its always cool to say “what would batman do” than to say “What would Lady gaga do”. Batman would be like “kick ass and save Gotham” while lady gaga would be like “Get high and act like a crazy person because that’s being original.” ANYWAY. After the tea my friend offered to pay and got out her card. The man took the card and said that would be “£3.90”, bargain. However, the old cretines goat of what seemed to be a woman with what looked like a vacuum was suctioning her body claimed that the price had to be over five pounds. This was possible the most ridiculous thing I have hear, since when was there a price on using a card. After a ferocious back and forth claiming its policy because she doesn’t know how electronic work we (I) tirelessly lost this battle, the man embarrassingly gave my friend back his card who walked off shaking his head to the nearest ATM which she apparently claimed was just round the corner. After some awkward stares and silent whispers between the two behind the counter my friend returned and she took the tenner and returned change after doing some simple maths on a pad of paper, not for business use or anything literally a scrap of paper. I for one will not return there.

I walked my friend back to work and she works at a shoe shop, a woman’s shoe shop. This is right next to a bigger woman’s shoe shop. Anyway upon entering you are greeting by a jet of cooling air and shoes in what looks like a closet. There are better shoe shops in India than this shop. And they were having a discount. I recall a woman couldn’t chose between what to me look like identical shoes, apparently two different makes but what do I know. She claimed one was more comfortable but the other looked nicer. I said go for the more comfortable one, being smart they look the same one is more comfortable then obviously it’s the better choice, I did not know woman do not wear shoes for comfort but yet for “Style”.  To be frank I don’t notice a woman’s shoes unless they took it off and showed it to me, who are they showing it to? If you’re going out its going to be dark or your feet are going to be under a table, and if they are not you’re going to be walking. And it’s not every day you go “oh I’m walking let me stare at my friends feet to make sure they are wearing the latest uncomfortable shoe”. I for one don’t care if you wear flats, heels (as long as you’re not taller than me) or clown shoes, I don’t see a girl and go “Damn those shoes are hot I wonder where she got them from.” Maybe if you had a foot fetish? But anyway this woman didn’t go for my decision claiming that she would be happier with the exact same but uncomfortable ones, so I put forward that if you are going to be walking a lot you might want the comfortable ones because you might be happier, which she took it as an insult on all of humanity that I claim that woman complain because their feet hurt. Maybe, science is too scared to advance in this field.

Another thing is, I was walking home and being a Friday the drunks are out in great numbers, quite scary sometimes. Today on “What drunk are you going to meet” I met a drunk who was 100% certain I was someone named Chris. Now if you know me I do not look like a Chris, I do not walk like a Chris, I do not talk like a Chris, I do not smell, sing, feel or think like a Chris, nor would I ever want to be called Chris. But this man was dead certain I was Chris and I owed him money. I kindly told him I wasn’t Chris and he was mistaken, and he said no I know that height and glasses its Chris. Now clearly I wasn’t going to win because at my height and wearing glasses who wouldn’t be Chris. I started to walk off and told him I’ve got the money I’ll go take it out of the bank now and ill phone him later. My question is, why do people get so unnecessarily drunk, girls it doesn’t look attractive if you’re there throwing up and guys it doesn’t make you look hard. Being tipsy is fine but flat out drunk it makes you look stupid and where do people keep getting it from?