Saturday, April 17, 2004
A place IS its people, they say. In which case, Dublin is maybe the friendliest city in the world. Here's my rewritten memory of 9am Tuesday in a Regus cybercafe:
Good morning
Good morning
Have you seen the swans this morning?
Erm.....no.
We have the swans in the river back there, just round the back of the building, and you know, I havent seem them since thursday. They’re really lovely you see, nice things to have around here and every lunchtime I like to take a little walk just up to the coast and see them on the river there. Well know, there’s a school just opposite the mouth and those kiddies, you know, boisterous, 14, 15, 16 they’re of an age, they’re of an age where, well, you know we have to keep an eye out for the swans, you know?
Perhaps you should recommend a day where all the boys have to spend a day in the river and the swans can throw things at them
Aah, that’s a good idea there.
A FEW HOURS LATER. SAME BLOKE.
You love that computer there don’t you?
Well, it’s my job. I can’t do much else right now.
Talking about those swans, did you see the telly the other night? What with being Easter, they decided to devote a whole day to chickens, you see. So they had all these programmes on chickens and eggs and the significance to Easter and all, and they got all these big experts in, the chicken experts like biologists and philosophers and everybody to try and find out once and for all which came first, if it was the chicken or the egg.
Really? That sounds great. Did they come to a conclusion? I’d love to know.
They didn’t get everybody to agree but I tend to go with the biologists on this one and say it was the egg that came first.
Really?
Yes, the egg would have come from something not quite chicken but contained something a little bit more chicken, you see. Of course the philosophers and all the others weren’t happy with that but that’s what I think.
That's fascinating.
Bye now
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Good morning
Good morning
Have you seen the swans this morning?
Erm.....no.
We have the swans in the river back there, just round the back of the building, and you know, I havent seem them since thursday. They’re really lovely you see, nice things to have around here and every lunchtime I like to take a little walk just up to the coast and see them on the river there. Well know, there’s a school just opposite the mouth and those kiddies, you know, boisterous, 14, 15, 16 they’re of an age, they’re of an age where, well, you know we have to keep an eye out for the swans, you know?
Perhaps you should recommend a day where all the boys have to spend a day in the river and the swans can throw things at them
Aah, that’s a good idea there.
A FEW HOURS LATER. SAME BLOKE.
You love that computer there don’t you?
Well, it’s my job. I can’t do much else right now.
Talking about those swans, did you see the telly the other night? What with being Easter, they decided to devote a whole day to chickens, you see. So they had all these programmes on chickens and eggs and the significance to Easter and all, and they got all these big experts in, the chicken experts like biologists and philosophers and everybody to try and find out once and for all which came first, if it was the chicken or the egg.
Really? That sounds great. Did they come to a conclusion? I’d love to know.
They didn’t get everybody to agree but I tend to go with the biologists on this one and say it was the egg that came first.
Really?
Yes, the egg would have come from something not quite chicken but contained something a little bit more chicken, you see. Of course the philosophers and all the others weren’t happy with that but that’s what I think.
That's fascinating.
Bye now
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