Antisocial Sunday
As I’m up reasonably early and have a few hours to spare before going out for lunch on a Routemaster bus that’s been converted into a vegan restaurant, I decide to continue with my finely tuned athleteness and go for a short run and I decide to try it unencumbered with my usual assortment of running essentials and put all my trust in my Nokia N95 and so I say goodbye to my Garmin and iPod and tell them it’s nothing personal and I get to the park and try and find a bit of bench to sit on that’s not covered in pigeon crap while I wait for my phone to pick up a signal and two girls are jogging down the path towards me and as they get closer I realise they haven’t been girls for a very long time and when they get past me they stop and start walking and I think oh shit, if I run past them will they think I’m showing off in a “you lightweights, look, I’m not walking, I am a finely tuned athlete and you clearly are not” but then I think well I can’t sit here on this pigeon shit encrusted bench all day and my phone’s picked up a signal and I turn on the music and am shocked at the appalling sound quality and I run round the park and up to the sports field and half way round the sports field the phone has lost its signal and I think this smartphone isn’t really very smart at all but as I’m nearing my house the signal comes back and it seems to have caught up with itself and I’m still thinking the sound quality of the phone is really shit and then I realise that the sound’s coming from the speakers and not the headphones and I think oh my god, how embarrassing, now everyone I’ve passed this morning is going to go home and tell their families about the antisocial woman running round the park with music blaring out of her phone. Oops.
Stats:
Duration: 14:05
Distance: 1.31 miles
Speed avg: 5.6 mph
Pace avg: 10:44 min/miles
Phones blaring out music: 1
🙂 yeah right you were just trying to be down with the kids, playing your rap tunes through the mobile speaker.
LOL :-}
PMPL!!
I just hope you didn’t start singing along, now that really would be embarassing 😉
thats so funny 🙂
Do they move that bus while you eat?
No, the bus is static; they have a new permanent home in the Old Truman Brewery so you can go and eat nice food and then go to the market and buy overpriced tat. The food is a lot cheaper than their website would suggest, it’s very un-updated. They’re not licensed at the mo though, which didn’t unduly piss me off what with it being lunchtime, but we did see a man with a bottle of wine so maybe you can take your own.
I think that’s a fairly standard trick in unlicensed places – means you get the wine for about quarter of the price too 🙂
Unless you go to a restaurant that charges £1.50 corkage per person 🙁
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