Friday, February 29, 2008

The day I was kissed (well almost) on the tube

Some drunk dude gets on the tube, a crowded tube at that, and starts blabbering about god knows what to anyone and everyone he makes eye contact with. Starts with the lady he keeps bumping into because he is completely unable to stand without the help of two hands. So, ever intelligently he uses just one and sways all over the shop repeatedly bumping into this woman who makes her distaste known to the entire carriage.

So moving on to the next person, he starts to compliment this woman on her beautiful eyes (I didn't get the chance to see so I cannot confirm or deny if he was speaking truth) sitting next to me - still swaying of course but the train has emptied a bit by this time so he's not bumping into anyone anymore but he does nearly land in my lap on one reverb. At this point I finally get a whiff of his stale alcohol stench. He smells like he bathed in a tub of out of date beer, whisky, and dentures a year past due for a cleaning. He stunk.

So as expected he moved onto the next victim. Me of course. He says something that I'm not able to hear with my headphones off so I remove them - This could be well worth it! What he said was that I was a good looking man. Ha. I laugh and thank him, he repeats it and I say thank you again. At this point everyone is watching and giggling. Its very funny actually but it soon gets even funnier. He tells me again for the 3rd time in a matter of 30 seconds and this time leans in for a smooch! I lean back as far as I can trying to avoid a lip lock but I'm trapped without much room to maneuver. Luckily it was my stop and I was able to avoid lip locking with the man that closely resembled the guy in the old school bitter beer face ads from keystone light.



All I could say at the time was 'I'm not THAT good looking!' And ran off the tube. Everyone was laughing hysterically, including me. I'm still laughing now and it happened an hour ago! Needless to say I was not expecting that to happen on a simple trip home from work! Gotta love London.

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