13th July 2012 - Friday
July 14, 2012
I got up at 5:10 today. I had a read a bit of The Second Book of General Ignorance (ISBN: 4) last night and realised how much difficulty I have reading. I think I just skim read everything, which makes reading all of Stephen Fry’s words in the preface nigh on impossible. My alarm woke me at 5 but I decided to give myself a few more minutes of sleep so I changed the alarm to 5:10. I had a dream about a ferry tipping over. As I was going on a ferry later I was slightly worried, but no more worried than usual that the ferry might tip over. The worst bit would be getting my phone wet.
At Southampton, there was a shop front that looked like a guitar combo amplifier. On the train, I read that I could buy a mosquito net for £5.00. Just enough to buy a sandwich. I wondered what kind of gold-plated sandwich that would be. I later found out it was foot long hotdog that costs £5.00.
After navigating the poor signposting, I got to Farnborough Airshow and it was a massive con. A lot of the space for air was taken up by planes. I didn’t come here to look at planes; I came here to look at and maybe talk to some girls. On the way to the EDT stall, I saw the Airbus A380. It wasn’t as big as I had imagined. I think I heard that you could fit the entire population of China under the wings and I wasn’t that impressed because the Chinese are only small. It’s not true, though. I reached the EDT stall and saw the other person on the scheme. I recognised him and he said we were both at the National Grid day. He had got the job. I didn’t mind too much because I reckon it’s better where I ended up. I changed in to my EDT shirt. I was a bit worried about taking my shirt off because I didn’t know if I was expected to do it there or not. I did anyway and nobody seemed to mind. There was meant to be a a girl coming but she didn’t come so I was disappointed. I was going to try to chat her up.
I helped out a bit on the stall showing little kids what to do with the hydraulic hand. They had to lift a cup using a wooden arm controlled by syringes full of liquid. There were quite a few girls coming to the stall, but they were all just years 7s and stuff. I did accidentally get water on one of them and couldn’t help but notice she had very large breasts. Niiiiiice. My break came so I had a look about. I saw a Vertibird like off of Fallout and all sorts of other aircraft. I saw someone with a fake goatee and wanted one to put over my real beard but I couldn’t find where they were being given out. I walked about a bit more and saw one of my old teachers so I spoke to him for a bit. He told me I had my keyboard to collect at school. I saw a few people in the air cadets. A few of them looked to fat to fly a plane. I went to do a wee and the toilet room was massive. It was a bout four metres wide with about 20 urinals on each side.
I went back to the stall and helped a bit more. The other lad kept looking at the planes. They’re only planes and they’re all pretty much the same. They got the Airbus A380 out and it was banking pretty heavily. Then a small girl came up to the stall and told me her name. I recognised her name and then the EDT man made it apparent it was the girl who was meant to be helping that day. She only came up to my shoulder. She was pretty. I spoke to her a bit and she didn’t seem to hate me, which is always a good start. Then the other guy started talking to her so I thought I’d lost my chance to make a good first impression.
Then she, the other one and me went out to look at plane displays. They were walking together and I was following behind. I got to look at her cute bum. I spoke to her a few times later and I made her laugh a few times. She was even laughing at stuff which didn’t seem that funny, like when the Vertibird took off I said that I’d only be impressed if it went upside-down. We went on a tour of some American planes and a captain took us round. At the end, I asked him why his captain badge was oriented the way it because I thought the thicker bars were meant to be vertical, and he said he didn’t really know which way up it went. That’s an American. At the end, I said to Yasmin Kebab, which isn’t her real name to protect her identity, and Wilson Watson, which isn’t his real name because I don’t know it as I didn’t want to have sex with him, that you could almost forgive the man for probably killing lots of Iraqi civilians. They didn’t like the political stuff and laughed awkwardly.
We looked at some more planes and then the time came to leave. I had to hand my shirt back and it had got sweaty. Maybe I was expected to wear a vest under it. I asked if anyone fancied a pint but they both said no. We went to the shuttle buses and then Wilson left to queue up for a bus to his station so I was finally alone with Yasmin. Alone in a crowd of loads of people. We were both going back to the same station. I told her I would probably just walk and asked her if she wanted to come and she said she did so we both walked and talked for about 20 minutes. We got to the station and I asked if she wanted me to wait with her because we were going different directions. She said she’d be fine so went to the other platform. I regret not asking for her number or just slapping her arse as we parted ways.
I had to get a train form Basingstoke so I went to Basingstoke and then went to Southampton. The train went past St Denys and whenever the robot train lady said it, I thought of St Delyn which made me really want to play Morrowind. I saw the backs of some houses form the train. It reminds me of something but I don’t know exactly what. I got to Southampton and rang my Mum to ask her to pick up my keyboard next week. I had the feeling I was going in entirely the wrong direction and when I looked at my phone compass, I noticed I was heading north so I turned round. I rang Rob because I was bored. While on the phone to him, a man pretended to shoot me with an invisible gun. Because Rob, was on the phone, I had backup so I told him to fuck off in an aggressive way but then smiled to show I was joking because he had about 10 other people with him and I didn’t want to have to beat them all up. One man said to me “Lydon, you’ve been shot.” I’m fairly sure he called me Lydon, but pronounced like John Lydon. It was only tomorrow that I realised he might have said “lie down”, which makes me feel a lot better. Rob said he was about have dinner and said he’d ring back, but he didn’t because he’s a cunt.
I checked the ferry timetable and one had just gone so I had to wait another hour for the next. A man came up to me and asked for 60p. A bit later, and older and much sadder man asked for 50p. I went to Tesco and bought a multi-pack of six bags for a pound and some cream soda. I sat on a bench and tried to beat Stewart Lee’s granddad’s record of eating 4 packets of crisps in a day. I had 5, but then started to feel guilty because the old homeless man was begging for fifty pences nearby and I was just eating crisps in front of him. I offered him some crisps and then he asked if I had 50p again and I said no and then I offered him the crisps again and he took them. I still felt bad because I could have given him a ten pound note and it wouldn’t have affect me that much but he could have bought 60 packets of crisps with it. I thought even worse when I thought he would be begging while eating crisps. Nobody would believe he was actually poor.
When I got back to Newport, I felt really weird. I was confused about the man knowing my name earlier and I though the bus driver had asked me what I was on. I started to think that the whole World was in my mind. A bit later, I decided I was probably just tired and would be OK in the morning. I also thought that maybe so many things had happened compared to my normal day that my mind just couldn’t handle it. Overall, though, it was a good day, especially considering it was Friday the 13th.