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Overheard at the bus stop

Bus stop waiting

Oldish woman wearing a red coat, to another, with bulging handbag: ‘Scuse me…I think I recognise you from somewhere. Can’t think where, though….

Other woman: [smiles] Off the telly? Maybe?

First woman: [cocks head on one side and pauses] No, that’s not it…

Second woman: I’m an Actor? In, um, Eastenders? [smiles at the other people in the bus stop, as if to indicate that this happens all the time]

First woman: [studies the other woman for another moment] OH! I know! You look like that woman in the lamp shop down the road!

Second woman: [looks confused]

First woman: [reassuringly, smiling] …it’s the hair.

Second woman: [reaches a hand up to touch her hair]

[the bus arrives]

Stripe

*NB The photos above aren’t connected with this story, apart from being taken at bus stops.

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