Nutter of the week #2
October 18th, 2005 at 19:08
In between lectures today I went into “town” with Michael, or “Mickey”, as I’m attempting to nickname him. Three pictures say more than hundreds of words ever could:
I’m afraid to say that I’ve got another “Nutter of the week” – I think I was tempting fate by hoping in an earlier blog entry that it wouldn’t be a regular feature.
When in town, this bloke in a bright orange coat approached us, and had a slow, calm voice of Kofi Annan-proporitions. He explained in an annoyingly slow way how he was a monk (despite not looking like one) and was doing charity work. Then, of course, “would you like to make a donation?”
Mike, not being as street-smart as me immediately offered up FOUR ENGLISH POUNDS as a “donation”. He’d just given £4.00 aka: 4 litres of Coca-Cola, to a nutter!
To be fair to the nutter, though, he did insist that Michael take a “free” book about being a monk or whatever. For some reason, Mike used this opportunity to ask a horribly open-ended question… could he explain what both book choices were about?
So he made his sales pitch- this bloke compared what I assume to be his equvilent of The Bible to Lord of the Rings, claiming it was full of monsters and wizards- and taught lessons along the way! I don’t know what sort of religion you have to be to compare your holy work of fiction to the novelisation of a popular film (I know, I know), but it’s not like… good for credibility? Surely?
I don’t know. After making a swift exit from the monks field of vision- Mike still clutching his free £4 book, we continued on our way- including a stop at WH Smith to see how much The Beano is these days. It’s 80p!
Mike spent some time reading his book, as he’s into extremeist politics and ideas. Here’s a picture of him ruminating over the meaning of life:
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