This evening on the bus I found myself carefully watching a Romany family. Probably on their way to a party. Strange that it is so interesting to watch a group of people from a different culture. We could not really be that different. Still I always find myself observing.
A girl that was waiting to get off at a stop had managed to misplace her scarf inside her jacket. It was sticking out below her jacket on her back side. Looking like a tail. It looked a bit funny. A boy walked up behind her. He was going to get off at the same stop. Also he had something long looking like a tail hanging out from below his jacket. Something longer and thinner. Probably a belt. For a few seconds I was considering if this could be a coincidence or if there was something that I had missed. Maybe today is the official tail day? Or maybe it is to do with some sort of charity? Like the moustache thing. During the same time I also calculated how many times the girl talking on the mobile phone said ‘Do you know what I mean?’. It was nine times in total between three stops.
When I got off the bus and walked up the road that leads to our house I immediately noticed that someone had swept up the leaves that have been covering the pavement. Oh well, I was thinking, that is the official sign of that the autumn is over and that the winter has begun.
I walked inside. Feeling happy that our heating is working again and that I could take off my magic knickers after a long day in college.
























