Fuddland

I was waiting for a friend outside Holborn tube station yesterday, my first venturing out into cold and dark London since I returned from my holiday. It was around half past five, so there were hundreds of people bustling past, banging into one another, being generally In a Hurry and all very Londony, and I was getting all geared up to really hate being back here amongst the seething masses instead of being much happier in the warm middle of nowhere, when one particular chap caught my attention.

He was a young office worker — quite short, smartly dressed in a suit — also waiting outside the tube station, chatting on his mobile ‘phone. But in the same hand that he was holding the mobile, he also carried a banana, in such a way that it concealed his ‘phone and thus he looked, at first- and second-glance to anyone else who happened to notice what he was doing, like he was talking into an almost-ripe, clearly real, banana, and he was completely oblivious to how silly he looked.

This cheered me up no end and I’m now a lot happier about being back in London. So well done Bananaman, another good deed.

Update: I forgot to add that the newly-restored warmth towards London was diminished slightly by the £4.40 we were charged per pint.

#1

Clair | 2005 / 12 / 08 – 16:41

Was this an accidental banana holding? Or was it part of the ‘don’t flaunt your mobile phone in public’ campaign?

£4.40 a pint? *shudders*

#2

Cathy | 2005 / 12 / 09 – 00:52

Holborn tube station, you say? Half past five, you say?

Yesterday, you say?

Kevin and I (and his parents) probably walked past you on our way back from seeing The Producers in the afternoon :-)

#3

David | 2005 / 12 / 09 – 01:07

Re #2: Yup, half five on the dot [and for fifteen minutes afterwards — I hate it when people are late!]. Shame I was only looking for my pal and didn’t have my eyes searching for Any and All Familiar Faces. :)

#4

Sherri | 2005 / 12 / 09 – 15:46

Are you sure he wasn’t using one of these?

Now I have this song stuck in my head.

#5

David | 2005 / 12 / 09 – 16:23

Re #4: Damn, no I’m not 100% sure! I will have to haunt Holborn station [in the non-spectre sense] to see if I can find him again to double-check.

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