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Overheard on the bus #382

Two teenage boys from posh local public school, all shaggy hair and cricket pads in kit bags and high colour in their cheeks. They are indulging in a playful conversation about a girl they both know, and then one suddenly goes into his version of an imitation of Catherine Tate’s most famously catchphrased character:

“Do I look bothered? I mean, look at my face. Am I bothered?”

The other one stops laughing and says

“Oh no, don’t do that, Lucas: it makes you sound so common

Lucas, with cut-glass accent, expensive sunglasses in his hair and goggle-tan-lines from his recent snowboarding trip to switzerland still not faded, couldn’t sound less ‘common’ if he tried.

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