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| Centreville - 11.07.05 |
| submitter: | Smart Set |
| location: | Acton, London, UK |
This elderly mattress, with its tatty orange base behind, were right near what passes for the very heart of Acton: the church, the post office and the supermarket. One of the streetdrinkers on the right attempts to point, but the alcohol spoils his aim.
The woman in the blue coat asked me what I was doing. When I told her, she said that there were a lot of idiots about in Acton. Something told me she had already met Vogon3 and psychobabble. "Glamour girls, that's where the money is in photography," she informed me conspiratorially. "You wanna find yerself an Abi Titmuss." She told me that, as for herself, she would like to have "a picture of the sea" - a sideways movement of her hand suggesting the broad sweep of a maritime landscape. "You haven't got a penknife on you?" she enquired, "only I want some of that sand for me heather; I've had two lots die on me." There was a bag of builders' sand nearby. "Heather likes a sandy soil," I said, opening the bag with my car key. "Oh, does it?" she said, sounding surprised. |
| category: | People Keepin it Real |
| comments: | 16 |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.18.05 | | I've put a larger version of this pic on frappr Matworld. Shame you can't seem to change the caption. |
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| Sheila commented on 11.12.05 | | ...here now you crazy sot, take your nutty mattress ways and bugger off...I'm busy! |
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| wim commented on 11.12.05 | | then she bent over and told me in her soft voice "beware of the builders sand, it turns softness into concrete." She wondered in a silent kind of ay, why the picture just taken by the mattress master of the unverse reminded her of sciencefiction books and a painting by edward hopper, although this might have been due to her boozy state of mind early in he morning.... |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.12.05 | | Yes, wim, certain echoes of #2404. By the way, I have just found out that this woman's name is Sheila. I was also told that she has only one gas-ring... |
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| wim commented on 11.12.05 | | 11203 it has a touch of "the smoking pope" one of arts first de milo's |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.10.05 | | I knew you'd like that one. |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.10.05 | | I'm afraid you've entered the world of sports and will now be terminated. |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.10.05 | | If your eyelids are batting so much, what's their average? |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.10.05 | | I really have no problem with a little extemporaneous lexicographal innovation. I only commented because of our recent discussion. Now my eyelids are batting so much my co-worker asked if I got something in my eye. |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.10.05 | | Well, as this site's name is a glued-together word using "street", I thought no one would bat an eyelid at "streetdrinkers". Yes, I was quite pleased with "lageros". |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.10.05 | | I was just commenting on the word glue. Lageros sounds like a Spanish word for beer rustler or something. |
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| Chaf commented on 11.10.05 | | I like the idiot reference. By lookng at her one can tell she has a keen insight to the world of "Super Modeling" |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.10.05 | | Yeah, Rebecca, streetdrinkers aka winos, or, in this case, lageros. btw, do you like my accidental FOD-speak? "This mattress...were right near..."
That's how they speak up north. |
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| Smart Set commented on 11.10.05 | | You mean here on SM, "Chrisitne"? |
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| Rebecca commented on 11.10.05 | | Streetdrinkers? |
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| ChristineLarsen commented on 11.10.05 | | It's very nice that you make small talk with the mentally ill, SS. |
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