Who are people? What are people? Where do they come from?

People are everywhere. Everywhere you go, you’ll see people. All these individuals hanging around with other individuals, being individuals, normally in groups, and having “a great time”.

I suppose that I’d better start by saying that I’m in the Nag’s after work, on a Monday drinking some stout. Not much stout, but I feel that I needed to do something at the end of the day. I might decide to try the ghost chili sausage roll again too.

Given the chance, I’d rather have the chance to go somewhere else, but pubs seem to be the only places adults can go to get away from things. All of which won’t be new to anyone who has read my entries before. My seat is going to cost me between £15-20 for my brief break from reality.

The good thing about the pub is that I’m not taking part in competitive sport and I’m not hanging around with people who are passionate about injustices in the world. I can just be and be ignored – unless I want service. There are other people in groups who seem to be having a great time, and other people who probably shouldn’t have started drinking at 1700.

£20 is almost four bags of frozen chicken thighs. That’s what kept me going over the hard months, and I’m spending that on a Monday, just to make me feel like I’m winning. It puts the £50 I gave to the local homeless charity in to perspective too. But I think my point is that this shouldn’t be a problem. People should have places to go and meet other people, whether they have money or not. I need this. I need some kind of reward. Some place I can go and relax. But maybe with a cheaper option and a place that doesn’t always serve alcohol.

I’m happy that the people on the other table are having fun. More people have joined them and they all seem happy. My guess is that they all work in similar low paid jobs where camaraderie is some kind of compensatory bonus, that will be a fleeting moment in their lives that most of them will never get back.

I’ll never get this Monday back. All I can hope is that in the scheme of this is that it was a good Monday.