Just a typical 10 minute walk in our area...
I meant to write this the other evening as in a depressing kind of way I found the experience of my 8 minute walk from home to McDonalds and back at 7pm on Saturday evening rather 'funny'...I walked out the side gate from Holland Gardens into Chapel Lane, and I can't fail to hear a woman repeatedly shouting obscenities at someone else in the flat she lives in (with the windows wide open) within the Shepherds Bush managed building opposite ours.I then walk past the Travelodge into North Drive, noting that as usual there's cars with no disabled badges on parked in the disabled bays. Theres's also kids lobbing the little bags of coffee, sugar etc. from one of the rooms at pedestrians, and trying to engage said pedestrians in 'dialogue' from the safety of their upper floor room. I ignore their attempts to engage with me because I know they hope I'll react to their goading, and knowing if I do engage I'll end up having a protracted discussion with the poor sod on the Travelodge front desk as I demand their eviction from the room/premises.Between North Drive and Pottery Road I note the abandoned buggy that was in the middle of the pavement has been removed. I can't fail to hear however how the clanking manhole that has been clanking for months near Watermans is still clanking away, leaving me to ponder why no-one has bothered to get it sorted.I turn to enter McDonalds, but I can't get in the building because there's 4 mopeds and their riders parked right outside the entrance collecting food delivery orders, thereby narrowing the pedestrian flow into at best one way only. I recall how the other week a group of kids aged between 10-17 had left their bikes in the doorway but none of the staff said a word, probably out of intimidation given how in their dialogue to one another these kids were effing away regardless of the elderly and young children around.I get in the building and I can't get to the order point because a mother is just randomly standing there with a pushchair and 3 children in the worst position she could stand whilst another of her brood tries to order something, and she shows no interest or inclination in moving.I walk out afew minutes later, and walking home I humour myself by thinking about how people say Brentford is brilliant whereas I feel like the last few minutes have been like the f**king third world (the language reflects my precise thoughts at the time).
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