Continuation from: Part One
17/SEP/2010
As I got to the taxi rank, it had just started to brighten up a bit and the clouds were starting to break up, to let through some sunshine to lighten up this grey mess of a capital, London is exceptionally grey and dirty, for all it's culture and general mess, it feels like a sad, pressured heavy city, even when the sun is out, it's never an uplifting experience, just one that gives visitors, locals and even animals more ammunition to complain about the area.
I'm exactly the same, I love to hate this place and I constantly after an assignment to get me freed from these grey shackles into something more comfortable, like a nice Victorian bathing suit, black of course, got to be classy with it. Nothing like that is going to help with that dream anytime soon, so any free chance I get to kill a man is welcomed, makes me feel slightly better about being in London and that I’m not dead.
Waiting in the queue for a cab, I should probably be more in a hurry as I’m more than likely on cacti and the body has probably been found by now, but it doesn't matter, there's no rush to get to my drop off point for this particular mission and it'll just be an hour lost if I was to get caught by the law due to fucking admin then the paper work I have to do afterwards, makes killing people in the first place a bit of a nuisance.
Special privileges for someone like me, not quite a kill whoever and we'll 'make it go away' status (for me, it’s got to be a certain person), like the licence to kill gives you, besides that’s rubbish anyway, licence to kill... First of all it's called "The selected ability to terminate any anatomy, professional or otherwise that is in interest of the security of the queen government and country act 1856 or The SATAPOIS Act. Secondly the guys granted a SATAPOIS are so near retirement and so stressed and shaky, they wouldn't be able to kill someone, even if their lives depended on it, they normally just take the fall when it comes to that scenario, saves the embarrassment.
I get in my cab and hand the cabbie a piece of paper, he has no idea where it is, fucking moron, thought these guys are meant to know The Knowledge, not a good start.
I get out and try the next cab, he knows, of course he does! Looks like a proper bruiser, like he would be able to ring my neck, and pull it through the protective Perspex, I feel safe as I wave goodbye in my head to the dead body, train station and all those annoying people called pedestrians.
As the cab drives along, well, as the cab stands stationary for the fifth time this journey, due to more annoying pedestrians wanting to cross the road safely, honestly, bunch of wimps, you seem happy to barge everyone out the way in the train station, not quite so brave on the streets.
I did wonder about tribes as my first thought, pedestrians vs. runners and pedestrians and cyclist vs. car, car vs. other cars, horses vs. the world.
- On a street a Pedestrian and a runner will not note either's existence nor will nod heads at as they pass one another, a runner and a runner would nod but a pedestrian and a pedestrian wouldn't (probably due to anyone walking and saying hi in the city are weird, only exception is in the middle of nowhere, pedestrians are happy to say hi, where the risk me abduction is far greater)
- pedestrians, runners and cyclists hate cars, for the simple fact, they're jealous - they want to drive at incredible rates of speed and have the convenience and flexibility that muscle power just doesn't offer (as in you wouldn't just up and run to the other side of the country, you'd want to drive it) so in order take down the cars one at a time, these bipeds put themselves in the firing line of cars, crossing when the man's red, avoiding subways for the more dangerous route, others simply jump off bridges, anything to stop that car. And with the ridiculous ruling that pedestrians etc have a right of way, the car constantly loses out.
- car vs. car, when peds aren't trying to destroy the car's tribe, cars are quite happy joining in and destroying each other, it's normally old cars rearing the back end of a new one, no different to hamsters eating their young, except it's done at 70mph.
- horses, everyone hates horses they're just about ok in a field, but when they deviate from there onto a road, everyone treats them like they've punched their first born in the teeth, if you don't have a first born then they spent all your life savings on a hooker in Las Vegas, every aspect of these burly useless rats doesn't make sense, the people, the requirements, the money, they get in the way of everything and the look of them to name a few. They're, in a word. Shit. I'm sure I’ll eat those words when machinery farming and fuel based vehicles plough themselves into the ground.
Bloody thought tangents, the taxi eventually decides it should earn its money by taking me somewhere as supposed to just charge me for sitting in an elaborate street bench. I’m heading to somewhere in London, I’ve never cared to visit before, Shoreditch.
I could’ve got the tube, but if you knew what I know about the air in the tube and what it’s pumped full of to keep it “breathable”, you would take up a diet of eating seeds and leaves in the vain hope they would take root in your body and create a tiny forest to clean out the damage.
Rest of the cab was boring (out of choice), the cabby tried talking to me, I was disinterested and politely ignored him with one word answers, which no doubt I will pay extra for in some sort of stealth fare at the end of my journey, which I had issues paying it was something like £20, from getting to my wallet to pay the guy it turned into a fare of £20.20 and the driver locked the door meaning I had to find a 20p, got that out, only to find the meter gone up another 20p, for fuck sake – I complain at the cabby, but he just smiles and says I have to pay it by law or something, my own rage was deafening.
Being a reasonable guy I am, I go to get more change out as it’s now £20.80 (due to our verbal exchange) but I don’t have more and I kind of lose it, I have time for this mission but not enough time to piss about with this overweight dirt bag, I grab my the standard issue metal suitcase and smash in the window and climb out through the newly created emergency exit.
I get out entered another screwed up universe of trendy wankers and the like and headed into the Macondo café to wait for my contact…
17/SEP/2010
As I got to the taxi rank, it had just started to brighten up a bit and the clouds were starting to break up, to let through some sunshine to lighten up this grey mess of a capital, London is exceptionally grey and dirty, for all it's culture and general mess, it feels like a sad, pressured heavy city, even when the sun is out, it's never an uplifting experience, just one that gives visitors, locals and even animals more ammunition to complain about the area.
I'm exactly the same, I love to hate this place and I constantly after an assignment to get me freed from these grey shackles into something more comfortable, like a nice Victorian bathing suit, black of course, got to be classy with it. Nothing like that is going to help with that dream anytime soon, so any free chance I get to kill a man is welcomed, makes me feel slightly better about being in London and that I’m not dead.
Waiting in the queue for a cab, I should probably be more in a hurry as I’m more than likely on cacti and the body has probably been found by now, but it doesn't matter, there's no rush to get to my drop off point for this particular mission and it'll just be an hour lost if I was to get caught by the law due to fucking admin then the paper work I have to do afterwards, makes killing people in the first place a bit of a nuisance.
Special privileges for someone like me, not quite a kill whoever and we'll 'make it go away' status (for me, it’s got to be a certain person), like the licence to kill gives you, besides that’s rubbish anyway, licence to kill... First of all it's called "The selected ability to terminate any anatomy, professional or otherwise that is in interest of the security of the queen government and country act 1856 or The SATAPOIS Act. Secondly the guys granted a SATAPOIS are so near retirement and so stressed and shaky, they wouldn't be able to kill someone, even if their lives depended on it, they normally just take the fall when it comes to that scenario, saves the embarrassment.
I get in my cab and hand the cabbie a piece of paper, he has no idea where it is, fucking moron, thought these guys are meant to know The Knowledge, not a good start.
I get out and try the next cab, he knows, of course he does! Looks like a proper bruiser, like he would be able to ring my neck, and pull it through the protective Perspex, I feel safe as I wave goodbye in my head to the dead body, train station and all those annoying people called pedestrians.
As the cab drives along, well, as the cab stands stationary for the fifth time this journey, due to more annoying pedestrians wanting to cross the road safely, honestly, bunch of wimps, you seem happy to barge everyone out the way in the train station, not quite so brave on the streets.
I did wonder about tribes as my first thought, pedestrians vs. runners and pedestrians and cyclist vs. car, car vs. other cars, horses vs. the world.
- On a street a Pedestrian and a runner will not note either's existence nor will nod heads at as they pass one another, a runner and a runner would nod but a pedestrian and a pedestrian wouldn't (probably due to anyone walking and saying hi in the city are weird, only exception is in the middle of nowhere, pedestrians are happy to say hi, where the risk me abduction is far greater)
- pedestrians, runners and cyclists hate cars, for the simple fact, they're jealous - they want to drive at incredible rates of speed and have the convenience and flexibility that muscle power just doesn't offer (as in you wouldn't just up and run to the other side of the country, you'd want to drive it) so in order take down the cars one at a time, these bipeds put themselves in the firing line of cars, crossing when the man's red, avoiding subways for the more dangerous route, others simply jump off bridges, anything to stop that car. And with the ridiculous ruling that pedestrians etc have a right of way, the car constantly loses out.
- car vs. car, when peds aren't trying to destroy the car's tribe, cars are quite happy joining in and destroying each other, it's normally old cars rearing the back end of a new one, no different to hamsters eating their young, except it's done at 70mph.
- horses, everyone hates horses they're just about ok in a field, but when they deviate from there onto a road, everyone treats them like they've punched their first born in the teeth, if you don't have a first born then they spent all your life savings on a hooker in Las Vegas, every aspect of these burly useless rats doesn't make sense, the people, the requirements, the money, they get in the way of everything and the look of them to name a few. They're, in a word. Shit. I'm sure I’ll eat those words when machinery farming and fuel based vehicles plough themselves into the ground.
Bloody thought tangents, the taxi eventually decides it should earn its money by taking me somewhere as supposed to just charge me for sitting in an elaborate street bench. I’m heading to somewhere in London, I’ve never cared to visit before, Shoreditch.
I could’ve got the tube, but if you knew what I know about the air in the tube and what it’s pumped full of to keep it “breathable”, you would take up a diet of eating seeds and leaves in the vain hope they would take root in your body and create a tiny forest to clean out the damage.
Rest of the cab was boring (out of choice), the cabby tried talking to me, I was disinterested and politely ignored him with one word answers, which no doubt I will pay extra for in some sort of stealth fare at the end of my journey, which I had issues paying it was something like £20, from getting to my wallet to pay the guy it turned into a fare of £20.20 and the driver locked the door meaning I had to find a 20p, got that out, only to find the meter gone up another 20p, for fuck sake – I complain at the cabby, but he just smiles and says I have to pay it by law or something, my own rage was deafening.
Being a reasonable guy I am, I go to get more change out as it’s now £20.80 (due to our verbal exchange) but I don’t have more and I kind of lose it, I have time for this mission but not enough time to piss about with this overweight dirt bag, I grab my the standard issue metal suitcase and smash in the window and climb out through the newly created emergency exit.
I get out entered another screwed up universe of trendy wankers and the like and headed into the Macondo café to wait for my contact…