A Brixton Moment... Continued

[Anna Key]

There was a great thread a few months back called this, which seems have been zapped, so here's a new one...

Moment 1

Overheard in the Beehive yesterday: ravishingly pretty girl talking to young man she obviously rather fancied:

"I'm not wearing any knickers and they've reduced my medication to twelve and a half milligrams a day!"

Moment 2

Rushcroft Road this morning outside the Tate Library. Lambeth parking enforcement lorry removing a Bentley (£200,000 of motor).

Residents emerge from their flats to clap. Traffic Wardens doing the removing feel valued for the first time ever. Readers abandon their books in the library to watch and grin from the Tate windows. A feeling of quiet satisfaction amongst the book stacks all morning.

Moment 3

Walking past Woolworths a few months ago. Small boy in beautiful school uniform whizzes out of the shop and darts down towards the tube. Two seconds later a huge, sweating, puffing, security guard in a greasy uniform runs out the shop and sets off in pursuit.

Crowd deftly parts to let small boy through and then, like the Red Sea after the Passage of the Israelites, comes tightly together, bringing the security guard to a halt.

Highly respectable looking grandmother carrying vast shopping bags says:

"Leave him alone you big bully!"

Security guard retreats into Woolworths. Hides behind Pick 'n' Mix. Crowd looks happy.

p.s. I've posted this last one before but it's one of my favourites.

[miss minnie]

local minicab from acre lane to max roach park the other day. dreadlocked driver gives me a card and says 'it's a really easy number to remember when you're out of your head' to which i reply 'ooh, i never do anything like that' and he comes back 'yeah, right...' and a big grin.

[hatboy]

Miss Minnie, the above just sounds like a normal conversation to me. What makes that an odd or funny moment?

[miss minnie]

Miss Minnie, the above just sounds like a normal conversation to me. What makes that an odd or funny moment?
where does it say they have to be odd of funny?

perhaps you had to have been there. :rolleyes:

[oryx]

Got a cab from the minicab office on Coldharbour Lane a couple of years ago. The driver (literally) turned round & said "I got de locks, I got de gold teeth, I got de BMW....I AM YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!!" We then both pissed ourselves laughing. I wondered later if he got passengers who took him seriously when he said that!

[Pie 1]

Last summer, outside Foot Locker, 6ft +, dread on a bicycle in full rasta regailia complete with very large spliff stops by the two American missionaries and say's " So, tell's me 'bout the god you sellin' "
:)

[hatboy]

Any Brixton moments involving small white people with short hair atall? Yeah, them Rastas, they're funny aren't they?! :rolleyes: ;)

(Anyone who doesn't know me please note the emoticons).

[deslaugh]

the gauntlet from the tube to the windmill.
Its 6pm midweek summertime. I met my sister-in-law off the tube a few years back on her first visit to Brixton. As we cross to dodge past Morley's she remarks "Oh its really edgy, do you not feel scared living here?" "Oh no" i reply, "its not that dangerous you just need to be sensible."
As we turn into Lambert Road we pass the fourth blue on yellow signs beseeching witnesses to come forward regarding serious assaults or killings. She asks me to define "sensible".
sensible: cycling everywhere, fast!

[rennie]

well my Brixton moment is more about generosity n the Brixton community vibe, that even I, someone who hasn't lived here for long, have witnessed.:)

two days ago dum dum n I went for a coffee during the day... realised only too late that the cafe didn't accept cards under a certain amount. n while we looked at each other perplexed (n wondering if the other was going to volunteer to wash the dishes first ;)), a lady we'd run into over coffee and who joined our table generously offered to pick the bill... in return for drinks in the Albert later in the week. :D

[fanta]

One morning, strolling leisurely down Coldharbour Lane.

As I pass the corner at Atlantic Road I notice two scruffy, filthy pigeons on the pavement.

One is standing in the middle of a semi-dried pool of vomit pecking vigorously at what solids are available while the other, eager to share breakfast, is hobbling around the edge because one of it's feet is missing.

Quaint.

[hendo]

:D I reckon fanta is really Will Self

[Pie 1]

Any Brixton moments involving small white people with short hair atall? Yeah, them Rastas, they're funny aren't they?! :rolleyes: ;)




:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[miss minnie]

Any Brixton moments involving small white people with short hair atall? Yeah, them Rastas, they're funny aren't they?! :rolleyes: ;)

(Anyone who doesn't know me please note the emoticons).
well my brixton moment, although not terribly funny, did involve me and i'm a small white person albeit with long hair. :D

(emoticons noted)

[Minnie_the_Minx]

around Christmas I was just coming up to Electric Avenue. The police use to sit in a police van at the top of Electric Avenue making tannoy announcements warning people that pickpockets were operating in the area. A policewoman who must have been nervous announced: "this is a police announcement. Please take care of your belongings. There are police pickpockets operating in this area."

Quite a few people did a double-take :D

[Bob]

AK - your story about a kid nicking something that you parade proudly completely plays to the stereotypes about Brixton that most people on these boards hate. I hate it when people stereotype it as a place full of criminals - yet you're saying that we should be applauding people who steal. In the words of Atilla the stockbroker 'Bollocks to that'.

Your other moments are great though.

[Hocus Eye.]

There is something strange about a max roach park. I hope they have someone clearing up the mess - all those bits of card blowing in the wind.

Hocus Eye

[IntoStella]

AK - your story about a kid nicking something that you parade proudly completely plays to the stereotypes about Brixton that most people on these boards hate. I hate it when people stereotype it as a place full of criminals - yet you're saying that we should be applauding people who steal. God, you're po-faced. :p

And the more humourless you are, the more AK will pull your plonker. :D

[jayeola]

Walking down Acre Lane during the summer. Looking at the fluffy clouds in the beautifil blue sky. General feeling of well being as I stroll to the MArket for the Saturday shop.

...hearing loud incoherent screams coming from Brixton. Christians opposite the Prince of Wales shouting into microphones. Nation of Islam outside Red Records shouting into thiers. :rolleyes:

[miss minnie]

central brixton, beautiful sunny winter's day, everybody smiling, red records blaring out 'the carpenters' at full throttle... :p :D

[Brixton Hatter]

AK - your story about a kid nicking something that you parade proudly completely plays to the stereotypes about Brixton that most people on these boards hate. I hate it when people stereotype it as a place full of criminals
Is it not a "Brixton Moment" though - rather than a situation that AK condones?

[Anna Key]

the more AK will pull your plonker.
Itself a potential Brixton Moment. Oooher!

Honest Bob, I'm not condoning schoolboys stealing pick'n'mix from Woolies. IT'S VERY BAD BEHAVIOUR!

I just liked the way the crowd automatically, instinctively and spontaneously sided with the underdog, the small powerless person being chased by a large person in authority (albeit a minuimum wage, de-unionised, corporate wage-slave person).

It says something good about Brixton so, in that sense, you're correct: I am stereotyping Brixton. As a good place. :)

[Bob]

And the more humourless you are, the more AK will pull your plonker. :D
You'll have to find it first! :D

[hatboy]

Don't need to know you've got a small knob Bob, but thanks for info just in case. :)

Those pickn'mix-heads are way out of control. :rolleyes:

[Ol Nick]

Itself a potential Brixton Moment. Oooher!

Honest Bob, I'm not condoning schoolboys stealing pick'n'mix from Woolies. IT'S VERY BAD BEHAVIOUR!

I just liked the way the crowd automatically, instinctively and spontaneously sided with the underdog, the small powerless person being chased by a large person in authority (albeit a minuimum wage, de-unionised, corporate wage-slave person).

It says something good about Brixton so, in that sense, you're correct: I am stereotyping Brixton. As a good place. :)
Someone last summer had parked their smart looking bike at the racks outside "Force". In full view of all the passes by, a group of 3 or 4 10/11 year-olds tested the front wheel, then came back and detached it and then came back, nicked it, and put it in the first empty doorway on Fernadale Road. No-one but I batted an eyelid. I went and got it back, but then what could I do with it? I was just standing in the road with someone else's bike wheel. So I gave to the nice woman behind the cash desk at Force who then had to endure the little squad of thieves pestering her for it.

Of course the chances of the wheel's owner getting it back were quite low, but apart from one old man who thought that someone should do something about those kids, not a passer by looked interested. And we must have been all of 50m from the Police Station.

My take on it is they are to scared to help out with things that don't concern them, but I may be wrong.

[Structaural]

I came out the tube and no one asked for my travelcard, no one gave me any religious literature, or yelled at me to 'repent' and no one was selling incense. As I walked down past Morleys people waiting for the bus got out of my way and my bus came within 1 min.

[Bob]

You did get off the tube at Brixton didn't you?

[Brixton Hatter]

, a group of 3 or 4 10/11 year-olds tested the front wheel, then came back and detached it and then came back, nicked it, and put it in the first empty doorway on Fernadale Road. No-one but I batted an eyelid. The kids will nick anything in London. I've even had quick release bolts nicked off my bike's saddle! Moral of the story - lock your stuff up properly.

[IntoStella]

I came out the tube and no one asked for my travelcard, no one gave me any religious literature, or yelled at me to 'repent' and no one was selling incense. As I walked down past Morleys people waiting for the bus got out of my way and my bus came within 1 min. And then you woke up and all your pyjama buttons were missing. :D

[Structaural]

And then you woke up and all your pyjama buttons were missing. :D

LOL! LOL! (twice until I can post - can't do short messages anymore)

[corporate whore]

Sunday night, last Tube into Brixton.

Impromptu jam, starring the guy collecting for Victims of Domestic Violence, (on money tin), bloke on battered acoustic guitar and his mate on old-fasshioned bike bell.

Result: one happily chaotic version of 'Ain't No Sunshine.."

:)

[Shippou-Chan]

wobbling down coldharbor lane on crutches after breaking my ankle. guy walk up and declares "thats what you get for making love in a bunk-bed" i stand stuned for a few second before shouting to the heavens "I WISH!!"