So there I was, just sitting on the bridge watching the trains go past. A bit of back story - I was poor when I was young and we did not have a pot to piss in. I wanted a Hornby train set, I got fuck all.
I'm older now, I'm making my own money and I am thinking to buy a train set so I get on Ebay and start looking. I can mend things so I look for broken things and then I start to check prices but to check prices you have to search specifics. I end up learning serial numbers of engines and rolling stock, their nicknames and class number. My face when the bay turned me in to a trainspotter.
Fast forward to a year ago - I am sitting watching trains on the bridge, eating my scran, when the British English Police turn up. Female officer came down the desire line. She said 'Are you alright mate? It is just that we have had a few calls from the public expressing fears that you are going to jump?
I looked down and I thought that a twenty-five foot drop was survivable. Then I looked down at my sandwiches. Three 'cheese' and onion triple with a bag of salt and vinegar twists. I said to her "Don't you think that I would pick a better last meal than cheap cheese sarnies and a bag of budget crisps?" She wasn't amused.
Which is where ebay comes in. I told her - 'I am a trainspotter' but I stuttered when I said it so she gave me a chance as a minority. I pointed and said 'That is a class 08 heavy duty shunter in Network Rail livery and that there is a class 37 in the same livery. At that moment a train came and I knew exactly what it was. It was the N********m, a class 170 and I knew because I spent time eating my dinner on this patch.
Female police officer was straight on the radio - He is a trainspotter, he knows every train around here.
My face when ebay stopped me from being sectioned.
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[–] jokersmild 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
What does that mean in Brit speak? Like "arrested" here in the states?