For the third Saturday in a row I slept in until past 1pm. I had woken up at about 8.30am, with workman across the road considerately starting their banging and dropping as early as possible on a Saturday morning, like some kind of modern day Bagpusses (when they wake up, everyone else wakes up too), without the social conscience.
I was still ill, still with an upset stomach and still burping burps that could kill at twenty paces.
I went downstairs and slept in my quieter back bedroom and when I woke up many hours later I was miraculously much better. I think I just need a bit of a rest. It's been quite a full on year so far and there's lots more to come, so I think I am going to take it easy for two or three days. My rib is finally nearly better too, though still hurts a bit when I roll on to it in bed. Yes, I think I've earned a few days off what with everything I've been putting myself through.
But tonight I had another gig at the Wam Bam Club, where I had had
quite a time of it back in March, and has now been viewed
by 145,000 people, which is almost unimaginable. Hopefully the bus driver would not be returning for more.
As it turned out the gig was fine, though it was a generally rowdier crowd as it was a Saturday and there were pockets of people who were drunk and chatty (on average though the level of alcohol intake was probably the same as last time, just not all consumed by one person). Anyway, I got through it without having to worry about turning up on YouTube again.
Afterwards I talked to the guy who had put the video up on the internet and some of his male friends. One of them told me that the bus driver had tried to pick him up after the gig (and not in his bus). I think I remembered him claiming to be gay at the time, but didn't believe it as he seemed like such a yob and prejudicially I had thought that gay men don't act like that. I made this point to the guy I was talking to tonight and wondered if it was wrong of me to believe that gay men were too cool and sophisticated to behave so twattishly. I realised that whilst it was good to have a positive stereotype, it was still a stereotype and it was good to have my prejudices challenged. Gay people can be just as dumb and pathetic and uncouth as they rest of us. Thanks bus driver for teaching me a valuable lesson.
