Three of the things I saw in the city of Bath and one was in the Market Place of my home town of Devizes.
I got to Bath and had to post a letter before I started work and so went via the Post Office outside of which stood an ant. I say stood because this ant was over five foot tall, they never looked that big in the adverts. I think it was trying to sell credit cards as the woman behind the counter tried to sign me up for one also. Nearby to the ant was a man curled up asleep in the unused second entrance to the Post Office.
Got to work and started my unofficial role as a tourist information worker directing people in pop in to enquire where the Thermae Bath Spa is located. Fuck knows how they miss it as it is diagonally opposite the cinema and is the massive glass fronted building in a street of stone Georgian buildings and has fucking queues of tourists waiting to go in. Anyway one of these lost tourists was a Japanese Texan, he was chewing on a toothpick as he approached me and I thought that in itself was a little odd but when he opened his mouth to speak and out came this Texan accent I was kinda gobsmacked. There may well be tens of thousands of Japanese Texans I've no idea but it was a surprise to me to meet one.
The third thing I witnessed at 11pm on my way back to my car to drive home. I saw two horses on the pavement of Great Pulteney street which is a large street just outside the city centre. They had no saddles or bridles and with them was an elderly couple and a small group of about 5 teenagers. As I got closer I noticed a police car but no sign of any police officers. It looked like the horses had escaped from somewhere but I can't think where, perhaps they got out of a horse box and ran off from their owners.
Then finally driving through the Market Place of Devizes I saw a bloke stumbling drunkenly along the pavement with a bag of chips, the weird thing is that this guy looked exactly like Sloth from The Goonies.
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