I've just got back from the pub quiz. After very nearly winning I left the pub through a throng of eighteen to twenty year olds who gathered around the door, I heard one of them say "let's get a taxi" and I despaired. They were only going to the top of the hill! How lazy does someone have to be to take a taxi a mile and a half up a moderate incline?
When I was their age I walked home every night. There wasn't a night out that didn't end with me strolling up the hill, by myself, in the dark. Every Thursday I'd stumble home, crying and covered in sick, half naked. I'd walk dazed and confused without any thought for where I was going, my homing instinct drawing me home like I was some overgrown pigeon. I'd shuffle shoeless over the pebbles and brambles, weeping uncontrollably at my teenage state with most of a pizza smeared across my face and cheesy chips in my hair. My shirt hung open, exposing my bald adolescent chest to the unforgiving night in all it's magnificent pearlescence. I'd scream obscene challenges at owls both real and imagined as I plodded onwards. I'm rambling, the point I'm trying to make is that that was the best, everyone should be like that, I'm the best, goodnight.
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