10/11/2005 09:21:00 PM|||James O'Malley|||

In what I'm hoping won't become a regular feature (for my own safety), I present to you the first Nutter of the Week. Being the big wimp that I am, I'll give a "wide birth" to anyone who looks like an "unusual" characters, such as large gangs of hooded teens, big issue sellers, bearded men carrying around signs promoting the Bible, charity muggers, and troops of poets/childrens entertainers.

I was in the centre of Leicester at lunchtime today, I was killing time before my second gruelling hour of education of the day with Mike and Rob. I believe we were discussing the Tory leadership when this woman, from about six feet away looks like she's staring at us. I didn't think anything of it until she moved nearer to us, still staring.

She was then part of our elite circle of arm-chair politicans.

She looked strange- she was old, perhaps around 60, and she had what looked like a small circular mouth. Curiously- it looked as if she only had half of the correct number of teeth, and they were all yellow. She was also wearing a massive padded coat- and it was t-shirt weather for the "normal" people there.

She stared at us. Us back at her.

"Gaa Uhhh Cirruhhh?", she slurred at us.

"...Sorry?"

"Got a cigarette?", she enquired in a more coherent way.

What made this unbearable was that after we'd apologised for not carrying any cigarettes, she stood there for a few seconds too long, before trundling away.

It was weird.

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