So I guess you've all heard about things in London.
The first day if the riots, I was on the train home and it got held up just as we were passing over Tottenham. It never even occurred to me to think of riots, I just assumed it was over-exited sports fans after a football match. I was in the UK after all and it was Tottenham. When I got home I saw the news...
The second day of the riots, I was feeling under the weather and I was home alone - my grandmother has gone for a week to Devon with my aunt and cousin and assorted children and dogs. I invited my friend Dimitris over to hang out. When the sun set he left to go home, but ten minutes later I got a frantic call from him that he was coming back. Enfield Town had been cut off by rioters and my friend freaked out. He said they were arriving by car specifically to riot and loot.
Actually I think calling them rioters might be the wrong word. We have rioters in Greece, and their reasons and aims are political. They usually smash and burn banks, public buildings and Macdonalds (re: US imperialistic outposts). The ones here seemed set on looting shops and making a quick profit. Some were said to start selling the stuff off just a street down from where they looted it. So sorry if I'm not very sympathetic to their cause.
And yesterday I stayed at home and cocooned without looking at the news once.
Today I'm looking at the headlines and seeing that yesterday things really spread...
And as I write I can hear police sirens and helicopters. What the hell? It's one o'clock midday!
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