It's not unusual to be walking the streets of Mile End and smell someone smoking a spliff (and I've just given my Aunt a heartattack...). It's more unusual to identify the smell before 9am. My friend told me about such an experience last week and it made me laugh so much that I thought I'd share it.
A few weeks ago, she left her flat and was walking down the road towards the station. Ahead of her by about 10m was a young man, aged between 20 and 30. She could only see the back of him so it was hard to pin down an age. He was dressed relatively smartly, walking along, smoking a spliff.
Fair enough, she thought, some people enjoy a smoke in the mornings. Maybe he works nights and is on his way home. Whatever.
At the end of the road is an all boys school. Lining up along the street outside the school were a class of young boys in their school uniforms. As they got closer, she wondered what he was going to do with the spliff.
Sure enough, as they got within 20m of the boys, the young man stubbed it out. She thought he was being respectful and not smoking in front of children.
Then he approached the boys.
'Morning class, so who's ready for a day at the Natural History Museum?' he asked his pupils.
My friend's mouth dropped as she continued her walk to the station, past the excited class of school children. Just another day in Bow.
You shouldn't need a spliff to enjoy the NHM. Truly one of the best museums there is (though the dry dusty old rock collection upstairs is tremendously dull however much you like rocks and whatever you've smoked).
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