30 June 2003 17:58 [link]
thin ice
The first time I had one of those breath-freshening strip things (like Wrigley's Thin Ice) was when Sara offered me one. It was undeniably foul. I got it stuck to my lips after trying to just prod it with my tongue.
I tried one again today. They're still foul. I ended up with vile, minty gunk on my tongue. I would guess my expression would have been similar to that of a baby sucking on a lemon. If babies had stubble, that is.
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30 June 2003 17:46 [link]
chump
Reading The Daily Chump is rather like listening to your neighbours' conversations through your living room wall.
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30 June 2003 16:39 [link]
impulse
I must stop buying things on impulse. I go out for a tube of Fruit Pastilles, I come back with a box set of Fast Show videos. And a tube of Fruit Pastilles.
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30 June 2003 11:15 [link]
golf umbrella
Golf umbrellas are the SUVs of the umbrella world. Nothing says "screw you" to other pedestrians like a golf umbrella. Furled, they also serve as useful weapons in hand-to-hand combat.
I did get stuck between a wall and a signpost on my way to work, though.
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30 June 2003 10:56 [link]
equipment on the line
Excitement this morning when I got to the Tube station and found it crammed with people. It turns out that workmen who were doing something on the line had, somehow, left some equipment on the track and so they had to suspend the service while someone went back and sorted it out. The choice was between waiting in the station in the hope that they might re-open soon, or going and standing in the rain with a huge crowd of people to get a bus to Stratford and use the Jubilee line.
I chose the former, on the grounds that (a) I'd stay drier, and (b) as soon as I got on a bus, the Central line would re-open anyway.
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