Born Survivor

I walk through the car park and past the back door of the Taps everyday on my way to work in the morning (circa 7:30am). I do this because a. it’s a slightly more interesting (though longer) route than walking along St Andrews Road to the train station; b. because I always like looking at the Taps (if it’s possible to stalk a building I’m doing it); and c. I harbour the unlikely hope that one day as I’m walking past I might see people staggering out from an epic lock-in (I anticipate that those people would most likely be Gareth, Jade and Casey).

And were that to happen I relish the idea of pushing their drunken arses over and then running away to get on the train and go off to another day of dull drone person drudgery.

They wouldn’t even know what had happened. I can seem them now lolling around on the ground trying to get up and wondering how they'd got there in the first place.

The thought of it makes me chuckle.

[I mean how dare they have a lock-in when they know that I can’t go because I have to go to work the next day? In fact that’s probably the reason they had it in the first place. Sneaky treacherous sons of bitches.]

I quite enjoy my walk to work in the morning (I don’t enjoy getting up in the first place, but once you’re up you’re up, right?), especially when it’s cold and I’m all snugly wrapped up in my scarf, coat and woolly hat and my hands are firmly dug into my pockets.

And I play a game as I go where I think about where (and how) I’d sleep if I had to camp out overnight, at some point on my route to work, in the middle of a moderate snow storm. So obviously you’d need somewhere with a windbreak and you’d need some materials to fashion some kind of temporary shelter to keep the rain/snow off, and then you’d need to be able to collect some materials to cover yourself to try and keep warm and so on.

Honestly, it’s really quite fun.

There are lots of places in that little garden area next to the civic centre that might serve (especially near to the wall underneath one of the trees) and some places behind the houses that back onto the car park.

You should all try it.

Really, it's good.

 

It is.