Conversation on the beach.Quoted outside The Compasses: "We're not here for a long time. We're here for a good time." Another pint then.
Sometimes I can imagine how young people who give a service to the public are instructed in the difficult art of being friendly, making small talk, chatting cheerfully if vacantly. Instance: a young woman whom I barely know, renewing my account in the building society, confirms my date
of birth. "You've just had your birthday then?" she says. "Did you have a good time?".
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But at the pub in Roupell Street we might claim we're there for both.
The long and the good are all relative though...
I feel those kind of questions are verging on the intrusive, though I suppose well-meant. Also, however, I would avoid asking such things as I fear that life is a fraught and unpredictable business and one might receive an answer one didn't want to hear, along the lines of 'No I didn't,' and why not.
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