I’ve been reading a book by Tom Reynolds – Blood Sweat and Tea. Tom is an EMT for the London Ambulance Service, and he has a very popular blog called Random Acts of Reality. The book is essentially a reprint of his blog with a couple of DVD-style extras (his words). All the same, its much nicer in a book than on a website – call me old fashioned.
Anyway, what has this got to do with me scaring the commuters? Well, commuters can be nosey, and tend to read what your reading, especially if you’re laughing at the book. Now, the problem is, the book is like a series of very short films – some chapters are barely a paragraph long. So I might be reading a hilarious one, followed by a really shocking event involving poor kids. So, inevitably, they see the sad parts and then think I’m weird and a space forms around me – or if I’m sitting down, a seat becomes vacant as if I farted.
Which is a good thing, because I hate crowds, even more so on a cramped tram in rush hour – it’s good to get some breathing space so I can laugh properly at the funny bits. Thank god I’m in a very liberal country (Netherlands) or I’d be arrested (UK for example).
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