Last week I was on the tube home when a guy jumped on who I knew. I told myself off because I'd been in London 4 days and didn't know anyone! So I watched him awhile and tried to figure out who he was.
He was an ex. He was exactly an ex. Same build, same height, same receding patches, same hands, same pot belly, same eye colour, same bloody freckle above his collar bone. It was very strange. My delightful mother suggested, when recounting this story a couple of days later, that I lean over and whisper "I know a whole lot about you" but agreed that it wouldn't have been a good idea when I mentioned he was wearing a wedding ring!
This has been happening a lot over here and I'm starting to find it strange. There have been 5 people that I've seen that have English twins. It is the strangest, strangest thing. It's not like you see someone and see a couple of similarities, these are a whole lot of similarities that make you stop and think hold on.
Like a conversation I got into with a couple because I stopped the lady because she was the spitting image of a friend. No, she'd never been to Australia but her husband had. Who went on the tell me that he'd been in Royal Hobart Hospital with a hernia in the late 70's. End of his hippie days he said!
The things you learn!
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So stranger danger isn't a problem for you at all is it?? Just please don't take any candy from a strangely dressed little man who is breathing way to deeply for it to be considered normal.
Sounds like your enjoying youeslef, discovering your innerself - which sounds awfully like me, and I still have a little Meredith in my head saying "Oh, Beccy..."
Get out and start being a REAL tourist - I wanna see photos of you having fun putting your fingers up the Queens Gaurds nose, do you reckon they could move for that?
Have fun stay safe and away from the English Gagbrook!!
Hey girly pants - how about an update to your blog?
No updates for almost a month? Did you forget to Mind the Gap and disappear into the Underground???
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