
A day at the fair ground… what images are conjured in your minds eye? … Masses of people- some sitting, some queuing/ huge quantities of candy floss/ bright lights/ rides of all shape, size, colour and ferocity/ ear deafening screams from wide mouths of those on the big-dipper/ faint whiffs of cooking hot dogs and fried onions/ Winnie the Poohs and other Disney creatures awaiting their fate in grabber machines,… This is certainly the scene I imagined on Saturday morning when it was announced that we were to spend the day at the fair ground… so did my imagination prove correct… well yes, however it did omit certain details which only experience of such an event could crystallize. What I wasn’t prepared for was the sheer chaviness of it all, the smell of body odour permeating the air, obese vile people all exhibiting their wares in a very literal sense, odd men with cameras not looking dissimilar to those pictured on the front of red-top newspapers with ‘Rapist eats victim’ and the like written above their heads, every form of casual wear incl those vile 3 striped viscose joggers which were intended to spend their days on, well, joggers. Every form of dodgy handbag which would ignite in even the gentlest sunlight. Men in flip flops (with and without socks), huddies and worse…and the women? Well not too different from the men, just imagine the aforementioned with tits, and more facial hair. Each one looking quite capable of eating their own children. Families of at least 10 members all completely lacking in one way or another be it physical deficiencies or mental or both. I think you are getting the picture…Despite all of this… I had the best time. A different form of enjoyment was experienced than that of sitting in Claridge’s, It was the joy experienced when you gain more perspective. The kind of perspective which makes you feel normal. I now appreciate what I have and what others don’t have. In all of this humorous and sarcastic talk is a very serious truth. The fair ground was a microcosm of life for the masses of today. It represented what Britain is, a place of the chavs, the obese, the vulgar, the dirty, the rude and the ignorant. Things do not bode well… especially given that these people have the ability to pro-create abundantly. There’s little we can do but to live and let live and so my resolution is to do exactly that. But thank god my world is a million miles away from theirs. MH .