I feel much better today with everything. Also the last post was also a long time coming and was slightly backdated in what it was talking about. Regardless, here I am putting around London. Before I head off and do some more errands, I'll tell a story.
I was walking down the street and I guy spoke out to me who looked a little scruffy and so I didn't really pay him much attention even though I sort of looked in his direction. I immediately thought, a pan handler or some crazy guy or some other city nuisance and didn't acknowledge him. Turns out he was just asked for directions for a street as I breezed by and he cursed under his breath. Oops! I guess I am in New Yorker mode too much in the city and with nuisances that cross my way. Homeless people, crazy people, ghetto looking people, I give the cold shoulder. That's how we roll in New York City.
I've noticed that with people soliciting I do this too and this has thrown a lot of people off. Sorry if I offended anyone, I'll try to be better in the future because the people who "accosted" were actualy very pleasant and were saying reasonable things, not trying to rob me, or hawk a product at me, or beg. I guess NYC has made me hard in that way: Brit/American cultural contrast for you. Then again, what if the one time I stop and act polite is the time I get robbed or knifed?
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