22 May, 2006 | Leave a Comment
After the trauma of the mutant eggs this afternoon, I could not face making dinner so I went to the Chinese takeaway. It’s on a leafy, normally pleasant street nearby. As I sat waiting for my food, two guys right in front of the restaurant got into a screaming match. After one of them slammed the other into the window, the young woman who works in the restaurant ran and locked the front door. She said “You stay in here! You can’t go out there!” Not that I planned on it. The street was eerily quiet except for the repugnant sound of fists hitting flesh. The whole scene was repulsive. I’m not sure why the woman in the restaurant didn’t call the police, but a Jewish rabbi and the man from the fish and chips shop next door suddenly appeared and broke things up. Finally everyone dispersed except for the guy who started the whole thing. He turned and saw me and the Chinese woman staring at him and he said “Don’t be afraid, I’m not a violent person.” This after he beat up a guy and knocked over a string of parked motorcycles. The picture of self-restraint, I’d say.
Anglofille said @ 8:23 pm | london & uk |
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Lillie Says:
May 23rd, 2006 at 12:29 amSounds like the fight scene in the film “Bridget Jones’s Diary”, between Colin Firth and Hugh Grant If you’ll recall, they stopped long enough to sing along to “Happy Birthday” as a cake was presented to one of the patrons in the greek restaurant…
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So we get a picture of a lame feather stuck to an egg but no picture of a spontaneous violent bloody fight?! You have failed us all. In Los Angeles we all know to carry camera’s AT ALL TIMES. You know, just in case. Most of us earn extra money here by selling useless footage to news stations.
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The British are so civilized, in the U.S. they would have gunned each other down.
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Carol Says:
May 23rd, 2006 at 2:55 pmVery succinct Gadfleye
I think the knocking down of the motorbikes was a masterstroke. I’m visualising them falling like a row of dominoes. Very cinematic -
They did fall like dominoes, though much slower. I guess motorcycles are a lot heavier than they appear. They sort of fell over with a slow thud.
