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Over the weekend, I was in the back of a cab, being driven by possibly the best London cabbie that ever existed. This guy talked non stop for 20 minutes straight and was particularly taken with my attire that day. A short skirt, nice pair of tights and a good pair of high heels was not lost on this gent.
‘I ain’t trying to butter your bread,’ he tells me. ‘But not only do you look like a lady, you act like one.’ I smile and thank him. He goes off on a rant about how no one puts any effort into how they look anymore, so it’s refreshing to see a lady who does. ‘Look at ‘em,’ he says, waving his arms around, pointing at random pedestrians as we cruise through the streets of London. ‘They don’t bloody give a shit, do they? It’s all jeans, boots and big massive coats.’
I tell him I grew up watching my grandmother who looked impeccable until the day she died. I can’t remember ever seeing her in a pair of trousers and she was always in her full make-up and a nicely coordinated outfit, even if she was going to sit in her house all day. I guess that rubbed off on me, I tell him, because even if I’m only going to the corner shop, I’ll throw on a pair of heels and look put together.
‘You see!’ he says. ‘That’s so rare now. I would like to thank you, on behalf of mankind, for making the effort.’ It’s hard to know how to respond when someone thanks you ‘on behalf of mankind,’ but I shall endeavor to remain committed to the cause of looking nice, Mr Cab Man.
Later, some 14 year old kid came up to me in the street and said ‘Oh my Days! You got nice legs Madam.’ I was disturbed, not just because I felt it was inappropriate for a lad so young to be so brazen, but also because being called ‘Madam’ made me feel about 50.
As I went to catch the train home, an old Jamaican man in the train station told me ‘you ‘ave a nice pairs o’ leg.’
I shall file the outfit I wore that day under ‘Pimping Mighty Gangsta Suit’ for its ability to bring together young, old and cabbies in agreeance on the niceness of my legs.
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