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I was sat at the usual spot waiting on a job last week. No one else around, just me smoking a tab.
This guys comes walking along and comes up to me and asks me for a quid. I was like, "sorry mate" padded my trousers to signal I had no cash. He sits down next to me and asks "can I have cig off you?"
With my tobacco sitting between us, I could hardly refuse.
He begins rolling and we get talking. I get a better look at him and he has his front teeth missing top and bottom, reminds me of Compo with his scruffy clothes and tammy hat.
We get talking and he asks if that is my bike. "aye, it is". "Do you cycling around the city on it?" "Aye, thats my job"
"I run... Im a runner, I run around the city". Im thinking, fair enough. We get talking more, he claims he could beat to the other side of town and queries if I could do 100m on my bike in 7-8 seconds, I think about it and recon it must be about that. He says "yeah me too, running though"
wow so he is a total nutter. He finishes rolling and I offer him a light, which he refuses and says he must dash. Keeping with his story, he runs out onto the road onto a central reservation. Then this blows me away, he takes off down the middle of a 4 lane road running full pelt.