December 2011
2 posts
There's Nothing To Fear. But.
Tonight a chap and another chap got on the tube with a box of beers. They looked like they were having fun so I smiled at them. The Polish one asked his English friend how to say ‘cheers’ to a girl on the tube. His friend replied that this was London, and that people are scared here. You do not say cheers on the tube.
So I turned and said cheers. Who decided we were too scared as a...
You, me and an ass
When you woke up this morning, did you think about your day? Did you think about going to work, getting a sandwich, maybe calling your mum? Did you think about getting into bed tonight?
The saying goes ‘assume and you make an ass out of you and me’, and yet assumptions are in our nature. We’re hard-wired to learn from the past and establish patterns of behaviour, so sunk into...