Greggs

So on thursday i soldiered on alone my friend had fallen by the wayside this was it man or mouse time. Nothing happened. oh wait i lie! I was asked if i wanted to go to blackburn on friday, now i had work friday night so normally i would have said a stern no but that wouldn't very well be in the sprit of things would it? So i said yes... obviously.  

Friday came about like it has done for many a year now and i sleepily got out of bed and made my way to that fabled place some call Blackburn.... All my friends were late so i went to Greggs for some lunch, outside there was a homeless man he asked for some changed i gave him 52p, inside i got a sausage roll, now i don't usually go about broadcasting about my sausage roll purchases but what happened next is what i'm here to tell you about, the woman behind the counter said the fatal words "anything else?" now of course i don't want anything else and my eyes widened in horror as i realised i had to say yes! so i bought a bacon and cheese wrap and as i reached for my wallet it happened again, yes i replied rather reluctantly ill have a chicken lattice.....  eventually the nice lady asked is that everything? to which i replied "yes" probably a bit too enthusiastically. so i left greggs with 3 sausage rolls 1 bacon and cheese wrap and 2 chicken lattices i gave 2 sausage rolls 1 bacon and cheese wrap and 2 chicken lattices to the homeless man outside.

oh and to top things of my friend suggested i bought a onesie.... i now own a onesie. 

Rebirth of the yes

Picture the scene if you will, or don't... i promise it will be better if you do though, i am sad in a burger king with a burger bigger than my face with a moping friend, i am there to cheer him up, oh and to top it all off its chucking it down.
 "cheer up" I said.
He just looked at me over his glasses and gave a sort of snort that says "go on try me see what happens" in a threatening way. "Come on" i pleaded "look i know what will cheer you up" at this he came out of his self loathing slumber and looked up at me, you could cut the tension with a cucumber, the silence was only broken by the sound of an onion falling out of my burger and onto the table. "lets do a yes mission until i leave for uni one month today!" surprisingly he agreed straight away. "fine then thats settled from now until the 24th of september we will say yes to everything!" then we sat there in silence for a while and i read my receipt, at the bottom it reads "please call us with any comments you may have" so with a grin on my face i reached for my phone and dialled.... i got a automated talking device... however i was able to leave a message "thank you for your burger, it was wonderful, keep up the good work" then i left my contact details and hung up. We left the fast food joint and into the rain where my fellow wonderful friend promptly asked if he could wear my jacket, i looked at him with a glower "yes" i said through gritted teeth. I then went onwards shivering in the cold and rain my friend quite smug and warm next to me. oh and it would interest you to know he gave up on the yes mission that evening, i however will continue my quest alone into the unforgiving land of yes!

In the beginning God said let there be light... so i said yes. then there was a delay because i only had energy saving light bulbs

Monday yes lets start there... actually no because i arrived in france on wednesday so to start on monday would ridiculous you'd miss half the week all those yes's you'd never get to hear! i know its terrible isn't? though something wondrous did happen on monday something very nice indeed, but you'll all have to wait a couple of days to hear about that! No i'm not telling you now, because it would ruin the story thats why, yes i would like a jelly baby but not at the expense of  the integrity of this blog!

So ill restart *ahem* wednesday... nothing really happened if i'm honest i know i know thats a very boring start but bare with me i mean i was exhausted after a 13 hour drive so i think you should give me some slack. Thank you.
My brother did ask for a coke though so i said yes and we went to the bar /club house were i met some people who will become very central in this story however for now we just laughed at how one of them was just kicking the arse out of the others at pool. oh and i went for a swim. :) it was a very good swim. i promise that this will get more exciting in my next instalment and you will laugh as i cry. So stay tuned learn of monday and why i hate anything that spins now!

si todo

Lets not make gravy when all I want is a hamburger and get straight to the point, I finished danny wallace's yes man,which is a fantastic read if you must ask, and decided that whilst in the sunny france i shall become a yesman (do do do der!*heroic music*)  so for now this blog shall be overtaken by my fond adventures and why i cant bare to talk about spinning anymore....

At a Lose With Words

After yesterdays events i decided that i should go out and impress the world with my slight of hand. I get to college find an unwitting subject but whats this, my cards are not in their pocket, id forgotten them! so i spent the day felling rather like you do when you leave your phone at home.

So this post is not really about magic or mentalism but about a conversation i overheard on the X41 bus home. As i sit on the uneventful bus journey reading a fellow but far more talented mentalist's autobiography (the far more talented should have come as a given considering they have an autobiography commercially available) and a man with a lovely accent suddenly pipes up on the entrances into accrington
"how do you spell arrapla?" (now i am quick to add that i have no idea what or where or who this is in fact a nice squiggly red line has appeared and my lovely mac is offering the word arrival as a replacement in fact i got this spelling from the ensuing conversation) suddenly the whole bus woke up defensively expecting some kind of argument or insult but the man simply asked again "Well how do you spell arrapla?"

A lone lady piped up "i think its spelt araba" this was quickly followed by "actually i think its double 'r'" the next thing i know the bus is highly engaged in a discussion on how it should be spelt. I personally found this wonderful its rare that total strangers will just talk to each other so i thank this man for helping erase,  even if for just a few people, the social award-ness that comes with sharing transportation with complete strangers.

Lets Start With a Correction

Hello curious blog readers first i do have to say i may not be posting everyday and the title suggest as i may just lose my mind however i do have a interesting tale for a first entry...

Whilst traveling home today on the bus i decided to start using an old NLP (i shiver at the though of being branded one) technique (however a specific technique should actually be avoided at all costs if you my fellow world wonderers were to try it) called... actually i don't know the proper name ill call it imitating, there that doesn't sound fancy and explains itself enough i feel, now i see a potential subject get on after in blackburn and wonderfully sits across the aisle from me, right in my peripherals wonderful!

So i start to slowly almost copy everything my unsuspecting subject is doing and admittedly feel like i'm getting nowhere. then suddenly i got that feeling in the base of my throat and trying to escape was a yawn, oh no was ten minutes work about to be undone! I can't help it the yawn escapes but lo and behold my subject yawns seconds after me. Now i'm thinking this could all just be the yawning effect so i go to scratch my head and my subject quickly follows suit.

I could hardly contain my excitement and thus had fun with this new 'bond' for the rest of the journey. Now here is the truly wonderful part. The bus pulls in at Accrington station. I sit an wait for a minute. Then as i stand up so does my subject i walk of the bus and start to walk up the hill my subject follows before looking confused and turning around to walk the other way. Now i have to admit that this was the first time this had worked for me so for the effect to be so extreme makes me over the moon.... i only hope that that  was their bus stop.