Walking Backwards



Walking Backwards.

steve coel 


Our hero figures that if he hangs around by the tube station long 

enough then it stands to rights that some pretty lady will 

eventually notice him, like what they see, stop and start chatting 

to him.

That's what our hero figures anyway.


For, [ if the truth be known ], our hero is genuinely trying to 

stop the rot of a miserable existence. 


Misinformed and simple is the unfortunate combination our hero 

inherits from a bully, he will never meet, who dated his 

unwilling, frightened and lonely mother briefly at an evening class.


However; after several saturdays standing around outside the tube 

station, mainly spent chewing his favourite gum and trying to read 

the free newspaper, our hero is now beginning to think that this 

particular idea might lack merit. 


Yes, he has been spoken to. 

Not by pretty ladies.

No. 

The PCSO's simply wondered if he was, well, simply lost.


The hostile newspaper vendor, on the other side of the entrance to 

the tube station, who keeps telling him to 'fuck off', doesn't 

really count in his overall estimation of things.


Now,our hero decides, [ even though the initial fire has most 

definitely not been his fault, he'll blame the vendors cigarette 

and not his ], it best if he goes the long way home. That way he 

can avoid all the fuss and give himself some time to come up with a 

new and even better way of meeting some pretty ladies.


Tin Collector [ 2015 ]



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steve coel

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