Note to the drug dealer

… in a certain W1 dead-end mews on Sunday night.

It really isn’t a good idea to be exchanging several small foil-wrapped packages for a roll of 20s in full view.

‘Cause if you do, the Green Party leafletter who comes around the blind corner and nearly falls over the two of you will have to engage in an elaborate display of semaphoring body language to indicate – YES, I AM VERY CONCERNED WITH DOORS AND I’M REALLY NOT SEEING ANYTHING ELSE GOING ON AROUND ME.

I don’t play charades often enough to need the practice…

4 Comments

  • Claire
    February 13, 2008 - 8:10 pm | Permalink

    Christ yes, it’s scary when we see strangers who might hurt us for the things we see them doing. I wish they’d all have the decency to do what they do behind locked doors and not be so brazen about it.

  • February 14, 2008 - 9:20 pm | Permalink

    Did they take a leaflet?

  • February 14, 2008 - 10:03 pm | Permalink

    Sorry Edward, I’m not quite _that_ dedicated.

    But no Claire it wasn’t scary, just a bit ridiculous.

  • david ware
    February 15, 2008 - 4:43 am | Permalink

    I think Claire’s not off the mark in terms of her concern. Even in the UK, where the number of pushers who go around “heeled” is small compared to here, there’s probably enough paranoia wrapped up in the drug trade to make stumbling onto a transaction a likely occasion for some antisocial behavior. So, be careful, yes? And maybe think of doing what some door-to-door canvassers (as well as Jehovah’s Witnesses and LDS missionaries) here do: go out in pairs, since villains prefer solo victims.

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