Monday, June 21, 2010

Canadian Basketball Prospects

... and one of the barrel


And because the gods hate me, they put me on the road at least one tube nutter or twice a year, and last I plunged into his head last week. Although, I must say, this time it was my fault, in the sense that my behavior, dress and appearance gave rise to misunderstandings.

First of all, wearing a black pinstripe. Which, it must be said, is only partly my fault: the bank has a dress code pretty tight and you adattarcisi, then a pinstripe one sooner or later if you buy, if only because all my colleagues have one. Then I read the Times - but there was not entirely my fault, the shrine of the subway station had run out of Guardian. What else? Ah, yes, the hair brush that I tend to cut when they exceed gli 8 mm di lunghezza, ma quello é perché sono pigro - il taglio a spazzola ultracorto non necessita di essere pettinato ogni mattina, il che mi fa risparmiare quei buoni 25-30 secondi. Infine, e quella era colpa grave, il braccialetto di Help for Heroes : a quanto pare, dare 5 sterline per contribuire alla costruzione di un ospedale per la riabilitazione di feriti e mutilati in combattimento é una Brutta Cosa.

Insomma io ero in metropolitana - semivuota perche' cominciavo tardi (un "volontario" ogni settimana deve cominciare tardi e uscire dal lavoro alle 19), leggevo per i fatti miei e stavo in piedi perché, da bravo maschilista, avevo ceduto il posto a sedere ad una signora, quando a Camden Town una tipa appears before me, and I swear, from socks to Fairtrade jacket cruelty-free, organic hemp bag from the ethnic jewelry, like a caricature of the anti-globalization protester, was missing just a book by Naomi Klein in hand to be perfect - and I apostrophe, in impeccable English from public school, with a litany of accusations that unfortunately I can literally bring 'cause it was pretty long and the maiden also talked fast - the juice, however, was that people like me have made this country sucks, we capitalists Thatcherites no heart except when we are moved if the mercenary killers and murderers of children are injured or mutilated by the Fallujah resistance, we supporters of the Tories, we voters di Cameron, noi...

Insomma, che potevo fare? Ho aspettato - a lungo, eh, da Camden Town a King's Cross - che riprendesse fiato, e soprattutto che arrivasse al punto in cui proclamava che la Gran Bretagna non sara' mai una nazione civile finche' non si sara' liberata di quelli come me che votano Tory e sostengono Cameron, e ho dispiegato l'opzione nucleare, calcando un tantino sull'accento straniero:

"I'm sorry, but I am not sure I understand, I am an immigrant, I cannot vote in Britain. Are you saying that I should be deported back to my country?"

E' finita che quasi dovevo soccorrerla, e' impallidita cosi' repentinamente che temevo mi svenisse davanti. Non ha detto una parola ed é scesa in a hurry to Euston without looking at him.

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