Bless
Today on the train I was sat opposite a young guy, 16ish. I think he thought he was hard, he was trying to look sullen and aggressive at the same time. After a few minutes he pulled on a tight black glove on one hand only (which in itself is weird I think, a bit Jacksonesque) he was staring at people almost daring them to catch his eye, then, with a kind of arrogant panache he pulled out a cartoon of Ribena and had a drink. Good job I didn't laugh, he might have got his cap gun out.
posted by Stevo at 10:10 pm
6 Comments:
Was the glove to protect him from the Ribena. Do our youth know something we don't about the inherent dangers of 'Ribena'!?!
10:32 pm
There's nothing cooler than a one gloved man brandishing a sugary drink.. . . Did he handle the whole get the straw out of its plastic case thing with equal style?
12:15 am
every move was calculated panache. I believe he must have been an experienced Ribena user. Ribena is dangerous, serious teeth rotting risks.
4:37 pm
oooh. i love ribena.
i was walking up the streeet the other day and i saw about 10 different teens wearing one skeleton glove. they weren't drinking ribena though. but it did look really silly and they looked like they felt a bit silly as well.
i felt like an adult...especially when i noticed one of them had their shoe lace undone and i nearly told her about it.
9:18 pm
That's very funny.
Eddie Izzard describes a 'circle of cool' in which you look like a dork, look a bit cool, more cool, very cool, super cool and then go too far round the circle and end up looking like a dork again. This sounds like a classic case.
5:33 am
That's it, the cool cycle. Not sure he made it to super cool first. Maybe he just regressed.
10:20 am
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