I covered off two in one go yesterday. I’d joined a facebook group for a Freeze flash
mob in London a while ago and I wasn’t sure if it was actually going to go
ahead for real until about a month ago and given that I was flying back from
India, I was worried it might be too much, but I made it an at 6.45pm me along
with many others in Victoria station froze for a full five minutes in a
position before unfreezing and going about our business as normal. You can’t see me in the 2 min version of the
video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Yype0hD3c
but the screenshot is of me in the 5 min version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZYnM2pVyE&feature=related
I also decided that this would be a good occasion to wear
odd shoes in public on purpose. I walked
from home to the tube and whilst waiting for the train I suddenly realised it
was going to be a hard one to prove as taking a picture wouldn’t necessarily
demonstrate that I was in public as such. Luck had it though that I bumped into my
friend Meg at the tube station so she could verify that I was indeed wearing
odd shoes. I also took a wee video
whilst waiting around at Victoria
to illustrate how busy it was.
Did anybody notice the odd shoes? I don’t think so! Typical London….if they did
notice, they probably thought I was so off my trolley not to say anything or
just simply didn’t notice because like most people in London (me included most
of the time), just ignore any weirdness. I even did my grocery
shopping wearing the odd shoes. When I got back to Willesden Green tube
station I was asked to walk a blind lady home (ok, so she had an excuse not to
notice!).
Mostly the odd shoes thing was just to do something where I
would force myself to do something that is weird and not to worry about what
others think and not to make excuses, just to get on with it.
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