At this time of year the average age of the staff at the tea rooms drops significantly. The GCSEs and A levels are finished and the University crew drift back after their exams.
So this week the conversations turned to all the festivals they'd be attending - one of which is, rather inconveniently, across the August Bank Holiday weekend.
"I'm not looking forward to camping this year," said one of the teenage boys. The one who's just finished his first year at Bristol. He was asked why not?
"Because last year we pitched quite a long way from the loos," he said, "and my tent became the urinating tent."
The other young ones nodded, as if that were the most natural thing in the world.
The rest of us looked horrified.
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