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Jimmy 2

October 1st 2008 15:04

He looks at me and says, ‘I know you think I’m a drunk but really I’m worse than that as I’m a crook and I have been my whole life.’
What a thing to say to a young women that serves him his pint.
Who indeed does he want or more so need to prove himself?
As the topic of writing comes up, he tells me all about his experiences in gaol. Yes so he really is a crook. He wrote and wrote while he was locked up. I’m not sure what about but he tries to explain that most of it was self-reflective unconscious blurbs. I can imagine that there are quite a lot of things on your mind while being put away in a cell to ponder.

Jimmy doesn’t seem like a nice man but deep down I can slightly see a heart. He is a little creepy with battered wrinkled skin and his teeth cave in so when he talks you can’t hardly see them. I know he means well but at times I shiver when he tries to kiss me goodbye.
Once apon a time he was approached by a friend to write about his life story and this makes me want to know more. I am curious to hear the facts and put my creative license to use.
He is a drunk to me but that’s only because he has nothing left anymore. All drunks seem to have a reason behind there self distructive actions but not all want to tell you about them. They want to numb the pain, the past and forget about tomorrow. The problem is that they wake up even worse as what they started out like.
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Twins

September 2nd 2008 08:16
Twins.

Two men sit opposite me at the bar and they seem to look when I’m not looking. I look up and they just both smile this same smile.
When they order beers, I take a stab at them being brothers. They just laugh and one of them says, ‘Please I look nothing like him… look how ugly he is!’ I knew straight away they were lying. Brothers stick together, and for that matter, always make fun of each other without taking real offence.
It was their eyes that I saw were similar but mainly their way of interacting with each other that stood out as family banter. The quieter one seemed to have a good-looking face, and therefore he didn’t need his wit and jokes to get him by in life.

His brother has rather large ears, and a big mouth with teeth lashing out all over the place. He definitely makes up for this by talking overtly and crudely at times. Stories to tell. And quite a story he could tell.
Having been to Australia he reminisced about his trip picking out places he remembered such as the Court in Oxford St. Quite a party boy he seems. His brother just sits and looks on quietly.
They both work together in marketing and tell me it’s a good life, and good salary for talking shit most of the day. Makes me feel sick thinking about the wage I’m on. Both Kent boys, the quiet one lives with his girlfriend there, while the loud one has taken root in London as he likes to ‘get wrecked every night, and that’s what London is all about.’ I almost kinda agree on that one with the shit weather, and the working atmosphere sometimes there is only the pub that gets you through to the next working day. People come to make money, and get drunk, and then leave when they have had enough.
The loud twin takes a phone call, and all of a sudden the noise that seemed to take over the whole surrounding area had ceased and there was just he and I. He asked questions and waited for the answers. I told him about my travels and my writing and he gave a listening ear. It was exactly what I needed right then and there… just someone to listen and not talk for a change.
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the girl with the pink hat

August 22nd 2008 15:45
She wears a pink hat and holds on tight to a light pink shoulder bag.
She is also at the young age of ten.
She walks through the tube as though she is a sophisticated women on her way to work and as she goes to put her card in the machine it beeps.
She stands still with composure and there are no tears, no drama, and no yelling.
I can only imagine what she will indeed be like when she really is a women.
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froggie...

July 19th 2008 18:14
Froggie…

I met a French girl. And my friendship with her changed dramatically within 2 months. I said goodbye to her today and I felt sad to not share funny moments with her anymore.

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S.S

June 10th 2008 18:34
S.S

He is my friend. At least now he is. Although I met him four years ago, it was only until the last month or so that he became more than a stranger to me. Sometimes the image you see when you first meet someone is the only image you see in the future or you may think you wont come in contact with them again. Sometimes this isn’t the case.

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Friends became lovers...

May 25th 2008 18:16
Christina and Stephan...

When they met they were still playing hopscotch in the school playground. Well I’m sure Christina was, while Stephan was off playing kiss and catch. They were both unaware that 20 years later they would still be together, this time together for love. They tell me they know everything about each other because they have lived each other’s lives.

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Hugh

May 22nd 2008 20:44
Hugh seems lost in Spain but I think he is actually a little lost within his mind.
He is 32 and Canadian but has spent a lot of his life travelling around Europe for work commitments. At the moment he is learning Spanish in Cadiz, in my class.
I feel like he is here to make friends, well that is what he has told me, but I truly think he is on some kind of mission to find a partner. Maybe someone to fill the void, fill the space that his past girlfriend once occupied.

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Beatrice andJoel

May 18th 2008 14:59


I hadn’t seen them since I was six, and there I was standing on their doorstep a much taller and grown-up woman. Joel and Beatrice are my step grandparents and live in Eastbourne, a small area of England. The last time I saw them, which was the first time I had met them, I was at the young age of 4. My memory doesn’t quite stretch that far so here I was meeting family for the first time.

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Peach

May 7th 2008 18:59
Pitzch aka Peach

On my recent trip to Germany I found people to be quite serious therefore, a little hard to have a laugh with. It was Pitzch, pronounced as Peach, that made me laugh the most with his quirky stories which were told with broken English.

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Roger - the bus shuttle man

May 2nd 2008 09:23
Roger

He tells me he went to Australia to see his father that he hadn’t seen for 30 years. I ask why indeed it had been so long? He wanted to see him before he died.

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