Dan.<\/p>\n
this is bonkers and bizarre and I probably shouldn’t have done it but I am a country boy who just stays in the Big Bad City during the week so…<\/em><\/p>\n I left my\u00c2\u00a0large concrete-steel-and-smoked-glass\u00c2\u00a0office at about 12.30 to go to a meeting down on the Isle of Dogs.<\/p>\n Unusually I was going to drive down – normally I walk.<\/p>\n Drive down because I was going\u00c2\u00a0to stay\u00c2\u00a0on the Isle after the meeting, prior to driving in to\u00c2\u00a0the West End for an evening of food, fun and frolics.<\/p>\n So I left the office and made for the car park.<\/p>\n Part-way there a chap stopped me in the street.<\/p>\n “Excuse me, is there a supermarket around here?”<\/p>\n I told him\u00c2\u00a0the nearest\u00c2\u00a0was\u00c2\u00a0down on the Isle of Dogs.<\/p>\n “How far away is that?”<\/p>\n “It’s about half an hour on foot but I can get you there if you like?”<\/p>\n He looked as though he couldn’t believe it.<\/p>\n “What?”<\/p>\n “I’m going that way, I’ll give you a lift.”<\/p>\n “Well that’s very generous of you, thanks!”<\/p>\n We walked the 100 metres to my car, got in and we chatted as I drove.<\/p>\n Dan is from sarf London, temporarily working on the north side of the river on one of the many urban regeneration projects as a labourer.<\/p>\n In no time we got to Asda, he offered me\u00c2\u00a0profuse thanks again, shook my hand, said flattering things, got out and went on his way.<\/p>\n OK…<\/p>\n Yes, I’m prepared to admit that – in hindsight – my actions may well have been careless.<\/p>\n But what a world (city?) we now live in where just helping<\/em> someone\u00c2\u00a0has so many cautionary tales attached.<\/p>\n We should be ashamed of ourselves for creating this society.<\/p>\n I am.<\/p>\n Brennig.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dan. this is bonkers and bizarre and I probably shouldn’t have done it but I am a country boy who just stays in the Big<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}