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None of whom are the "public" / clients for the purposes of my job. I have seen or heard of many fascinating individuals in work contexts, but these are not them.
1. Danny Lim, doing pull-ups on the train hanging-handle-things on a T1 train.
2. The Guy Who Walks Through Belmore Park In The Morning Reading A Different Penguin Classic Each Day. Except lately he hasn't been reading books. Still walking. Still wearing the same hoodie.
3. Coworker, toasting <10 nuts at at time in the work sandwich press.
4. Man who approached me in the manner of a chugger ("charity mugger") on the streets of Ashfield but who, when I brushed him off, shouted "putain!" in French after me. Which means I have now recieved more sexualised street harassment in French, post-transition, than I ever did in Europe as a Young Lady.
5. Two men in the grocery store lamenting, in French (different men to the above, but same week), the lack of good "courges". Same, mes amis, same.
6. Middle aged Chinese lady wearing what looks from a distance to be a navy blazer, but when you get up close it's actually a waterproof hooded jacket, and also EMBLAZONED WITH FLAMINGOES
7. African-American man, loudly haranguing the Asian train station attendant (whom he presumed to be Chinese, but other than his being in Ashfield I would not bet on Chinese over, say, Malaysian) to the effect of "don't fuck with the US" because "like we dropped the bomb on Japan we'll bomb the fuck out of China". Fascinating. Unpleasant but fascinating. (We were on opposite sides of the ticket barrier before the national/ethnic specifics happened; at the point where I might have intervened it could have been just any old person shouting at a rail employee about the timetable; and the shouting guy was proceeding away from the employee the whole time.)
8. Woman in high vis, on a bus, the day after the Jonah Hill thing broke, conducting a long and angry argument with her probably-boyfriend about his irrational jealousy of her cameraderie with men at work and as friends (possibly girlfriend, the name was plausibly either and I have met bi women with girlfriends who think they will fall on a dick at any time). She was not giving ground over whether she was "doing something" to make him(?) jealous, but also not dumping the motherfucker.
9. Appartment neighbours who do not use pegs on the clothesline. I took a basket of clothes-from-the-ground up and left them on their doorstep. Only half the basket have been claimed.
10. Man whose street art/busking act consists of inflating a giant baloon and then sticking his head up into it, presumably wrapping his face in rubber, which looked unsafe and was not as entertaining as he hoped it was.
11. Young person dressed as a cat in a sailor suit singing jazz of an evening during the Vivid festival (item 10 was also during vivid)
12. Aggressive Saturday evangelists handing out flyers and inviting people to church to "(muffled name) is giving his testimony!". They did not even bother to offer me a flyer.
13. The same woman immediately before me at three apartment viewings in a row. By the third time I wondered if we should team up.
14. Woman in an elevator wearing excellent brogue shoes, who told me they were very comfortable and designed by a nurse. I got the brand name (Rollie), and the internet doesn't confirm that origin story but does suggest they are very comfortable. Annoyingly they aren't on ASOS, so I guess I'll have to get an iconic account as well, but as my dual problems right now are the difficulty of finding masc shoes (general) and the one specific task in my job where Docs are too wide (transcription pedal), I am delighed with this discovery.
1. Danny Lim, doing pull-ups on the train hanging-handle-things on a T1 train.
2. The Guy Who Walks Through Belmore Park In The Morning Reading A Different Penguin Classic Each Day. Except lately he hasn't been reading books. Still walking. Still wearing the same hoodie.
3. Coworker, toasting <10 nuts at at time in the work sandwich press.
4. Man who approached me in the manner of a chugger ("charity mugger") on the streets of Ashfield but who, when I brushed him off, shouted "putain!" in French after me. Which means I have now recieved more sexualised street harassment in French, post-transition, than I ever did in Europe as a Young Lady.
5. Two men in the grocery store lamenting, in French (different men to the above, but same week), the lack of good "courges". Same, mes amis, same.
6. Middle aged Chinese lady wearing what looks from a distance to be a navy blazer, but when you get up close it's actually a waterproof hooded jacket, and also EMBLAZONED WITH FLAMINGOES
7. African-American man, loudly haranguing the Asian train station attendant (whom he presumed to be Chinese, but other than his being in Ashfield I would not bet on Chinese over, say, Malaysian) to the effect of "don't fuck with the US" because "like we dropped the bomb on Japan we'll bomb the fuck out of China". Fascinating. Unpleasant but fascinating. (We were on opposite sides of the ticket barrier before the national/ethnic specifics happened; at the point where I might have intervened it could have been just any old person shouting at a rail employee about the timetable; and the shouting guy was proceeding away from the employee the whole time.)
8. Woman in high vis, on a bus, the day after the Jonah Hill thing broke, conducting a long and angry argument with her probably-boyfriend about his irrational jealousy of her cameraderie with men at work and as friends (possibly girlfriend, the name was plausibly either and I have met bi women with girlfriends who think they will fall on a dick at any time). She was not giving ground over whether she was "doing something" to make him(?) jealous, but also not dumping the motherfucker.
9. Appartment neighbours who do not use pegs on the clothesline. I took a basket of clothes-from-the-ground up and left them on their doorstep. Only half the basket have been claimed.
10. Man whose street art/busking act consists of inflating a giant baloon and then sticking his head up into it, presumably wrapping his face in rubber, which looked unsafe and was not as entertaining as he hoped it was.
11. Young person dressed as a cat in a sailor suit singing jazz of an evening during the Vivid festival (item 10 was also during vivid)
12. Aggressive Saturday evangelists handing out flyers and inviting people to church to "(muffled name) is giving his testimony!". They did not even bother to offer me a flyer.
13. The same woman immediately before me at three apartment viewings in a row. By the third time I wondered if we should team up.
14. Woman in an elevator wearing excellent brogue shoes, who told me they were very comfortable and designed by a nurse. I got the brand name (Rollie), and the internet doesn't confirm that origin story but does suggest they are very comfortable. Annoyingly they aren't on ASOS, so I guess I'll have to get an iconic account as well, but as my dual problems right now are the difficulty of finding masc shoes (general) and the one specific task in my job where Docs are too wide (transcription pedal), I am delighed with this discovery.