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As a moderately good-looking (and modest) young man, I can’t say I’ve ever encountered “builder-banter”… Today that changed, and brought along a soaring new-entry in my “random moments in the street” chart: 

I hastened toward a local bus stop having grabbed a snack to eat en route.  It’s a relatively quiet street so I innocently peel back the skin, of what I must admit was a banana of sizable girth, and I take a bite!  Next thing, I hear from three stories-high the cockney-coo of a builder shouting “Eeerrr, that’s not how you eat a banana, eeerrrr, you’re meant to break a bit off and then eat it.”  Not certain that I was experiencing reality at this point, I continue, chomping down once more, this time to louder cries, “No!! What’s wrong with you, eeerrr, you break a bit off and then eat it, don’t you know anything?!”

I looked three storeys up to give a nervous, and somewhat ‘knowing’ giggle, and internalised wink before continuing to nosh on my fruity treat. 

Now, I know that education is struggling in the grand old city of London, but still, let this be the final step I take before mounting a city-wide-London-bus-spread-campaign, “Some people eat banana’s that way. Get over it!”