overheard on the bus

in the mornings, if i get the bus to work i like to turn off my ipod, partly to give my poor little ears a rest from what would otherwise be a three hour daily assault and also because i err on the side of nosey where other people's conversations are concerned.

this morning between pages of my 49p from superdrug novel (which is turning out to be quite good) i heard this.... "he's still playing darts, yeah man he's really grown as well, he's like 6ft" and then as if this wasn't tall enough, as if the boy in the rigger boots telling his friend in rigger boots was underestimating the height of his dart playing friend (presumably) he added "maybe 6ft 1". i know this is a peculiar thing to be typing here but it just struck as peculiar that that 1 inch can make a difference, it really emphasised for him how much the darts player had grown, it made me wonder just how tall the player had been before.

and then i went back to a novel about a dead donkey.