On our morning walk today, we met a man who we had not seen before, walking his friends dogs. Without any introduction, or greeting, he demanded that we answer the question “Open your eyes and tell me what you would not have seen during the middle Ages”. Call me old fashioned, but I prefer conversations to start with “Good Morning” or something similarly polite and refined, however, we gave him the benefit of the doubt, as it would have seemed rude not to. We then endured ten minutes of what I can only describe as factual masturbation, whereupon the man in question demonstrated that he knew exactly how the place had got its name, what kind of hedgerows would have existed in the middle ages and why fields were smaller back then. Much as the facts may have been interesting, although unverified, I was still astonished that the man felt it appropriate to burden us with his company without any hint of being invited. Perhaps I should have simply answered his original question with “A lunatic who hadn’t been locked up or drowned as a village idiot”?
Oh well...At least the sun was out
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