AJGO
Saturday 21st April 2012 1:32am
London
4,987 posts
Is this unreasonable? I am far too livid to post it in the mere TTPYO thread.
North London night bus. It is a Friday night. It is two in the morning (yes, I know that's Saturday). The increasing gastropubisation of this area has upset me for long enough, but this is really quite the limit. At least in the pikey areas I've lived in, although you might have feared for your life reasonably constantly, at least when you were on a night bus people cared enough about music to play it loudly, and you could buy some crack if you fancied it, and everyone wasn't white and weirdly 25-35 even though they were actually also younger and older. And people wore actual outfits, even if they were horrendous, but people had actually worn something they wanted to wear and screw everyone else, rather than just wear nothingness, and I know you thought about your outfit everyone on that North London night bus, because I can see what you're wearing; if you didn't give a shit that would be absolutely grand, but you actually cared and you came up with f**kall. And none of your conversations were the slightest bit, not even the teeniest tiniest bit interesting. I love insipidness, those overheard chats are brilliant, but you were all having the same f**king conversation, and it was so very dull. When a writer sits on a night bus and can't pluck a single exchange to bother with, then something is terribly wrong. I have been laughing at zooo's 'A duck once looked at me' story for a month, so I'm hardly hard to please. Oh North London, how I love you, and how I seem to despise the majority of people who live here. I have been struggling for a while now about whether I should live in North and at least be living in North, but have to live with other people and interact with the people who inhabit my area, or whether I should move to South and be living in South but not actually have to live or interact with other people even if I do live in a tiny shithole. Tonight my decision has been made. I cannot bring myself to drown in a torrent of civilised banality. May God/s forgive me.