7 June 2006

I was on the bus yesterday by Trafalgar Square and there were two female college students of about 17 or 18 years old opposite me. This is how their conversation went:

Student 1: What's going on there then?
Student 2: They're renovating that tower thing.
Student 1: What, you mean, Nelson's column?
Student 2: Yeah, Nelson's column. Oh, you know we were doing this project at college. We went to that building there with the paintings.
Student 1: You mean, the National Art Gallery?
Student 2: Yeah, the National Art Gallery.
Student 1: So what is that then? Is it an art gallery?

At this point, I mentally slit my wrists and passed out till they had left the bus.

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Comments:
read Overheard in New York for more examples of astonishing ignorance; but also of amazing off-the-cuff wit; and jaw-dropping profanity.
 
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