It was a pretty bad evening. Here's the chat I had when I got back:
chocky: Evening I
IJB: hello matey
chocky: I had the worst evening
IJB: really
IJB: why what happened mate?
chocky: I went round to see this guy who was giving away a 17" flatpanel
IJB: yup
chocky: And I bought a bottle of wine at the offy to say thanks
IJB: go on
chocky: He lives in Queens Park, I live in Victoria, so it was a bit of a trek. Anyway, I finally got there and it's not a flatpanel at all, it's a fucken 17" CRT!
IJB: ARGHHH!!!!!!
IJB: lol
IJB: lol
IJB: bollox
IJB: what a waste for fucking time!
chocky: I'm thinking, fuck this, but I've come all the way, so I bend down to pick the fucker up
IJB: that sort of shit right pisses me off!
IJB: lol
IJB: go on
IJB: this sounds funny
chocky: my bag slides of my shoulder, hits the ground and the bottle of wine shatters in my bag
IJB: LOL
IJB: lol
IJB: so your bags now fucked
IJB: hope it wasn't red!
chocky: no thank fuck, but yep my bag is fucked. I reflexively stand up, and the wine all gushes down out the canvas and over my new cashmere coat, jeans and brand new seriously hard to find running shoes that a dude on the tube was trying to buy earlier.
chocky: So I'm pissed, off, coming down of Saturday's fun and still hungover from yesterday's Christmas party.
IJB: oh dear, oh dear .... then you have to trek it back home in wet clothes....
chocky: Fucking annoyed basically
IJB: i bet you are mate ... thats enough to send a man over the edge
chocky: So I hump the fucker back to Queens Park like a roadie and head on over, with the CRT getting ever heavier, to my second appointment of the evening in North London, Dollis Hill
IJB: he he he ... mate i would have left it
chocky: Yeah, I should've done. DH is not such a *nice* area, and not one I fancy lugging a computer monitor around
IJB: might have some 17" CRT for sale at Sony
chocky: I look a bit, conspicuous like :)
IJB: KK wants one
chocky: As I'm walking, both hands full of CRT, this middle aged black dude in a puffer jacket starts shouting at me
IJB: lol
IJB: what did he say .... lol
chocky: I keep on walking, he's on the other side of the road, sort of barking at me
chocky: Then I stop and turn and he comes over and starts talking
IJB: lol
IJB: lol
IJB: lol
chocky: "All right, I' m your mate."
IJB: stop it man your killing me ..... lol
chocky: Not threateningly, but he looks kind of unpredictable
IJB: yeah i know the type
chocky: But he's sort of sniffing and hacking a lot
chocky: I'm freaked out now
chocky: I am thinking that I don't really know what the fuck is going to happen
chocky: But I'm knackered from carrying the bastard
chocky: I have to stop and put the beast down for a moment.
chocky: He stops and I'm trying to engage him in a *really* friendly way
chocky: I look down and his hand is in my coat pocket
chocky: Also containing my 420 quid iPod
IJB: LOL
IJB: no way
IJB: fuck that shit
IJB: drop the CRT
chocky: fortunately I had stuffed my book in in top of it
IJB: and kick his arse
chocky: He sort of smiles and I tell him to get his hand the fuck out of my pocket. I noticed this just as I had my hands free of the CRT
chocky: He does and I tell him not to be messing with me
chocky: I walk off and he follows me at a distance. I find the house I am going to and he stands outside shouting, "He' s a teeving bastid!" over and over again.
IJB: LOL
IJB: lol
IJB: my gosh mate
IJB: so where are you now ?
chocky: I've found the house I'm going to
chocky: Doubtless they're none too pleased I've brought the village idiot to their house
chocky: fucking weird I tell you
IJB: no shit ... i bet there thanking you for that!
chocky: I stink like a wino as well
IJB: i would have given you ride if you need it mate
chocky: I thought I'd be carrying a flatpanel monitor in a sainsbury's bag
chocky: Should have been no problem
chocky: But with my foul mirthless mood, the annoyance of finding the monitor was wrong, soaking myself in pointlessly bought wine, the frustration of humping it everywhere, getting hassled by a moron trying to steal my shit, and my bringing a fuckwit to meet a new contact I was none too pleased
chocky: Oh yeah, there was one more thing that had me on edge
chocky: I had 210 notes in my wallet
IJB: damn ...
IJB: you wanna be more careful dude ... your gonna get your self in trouble