Sight of the week

Waiting at the bus stop after trying to decide which of the 5 types of cough syrup was right for me (sore throat + tickly cough? sore throat + expectorant + dry cough? sore throat + chesty cough? bronchial cough? tickly + dry cough? But what if my cough doesn't fit into one category??) I encountered my 'sight of the week'.

Seen: one male dwarf on flip-open mobile barking authorative orders at unknown individual while walking slowly towards bus stop on Kilburn High Road. Said dwarf dressed in Saville-row-esque very sharp tailored three-piece dark suit, black wool full-length overcoat (looked Italian), carried a mini black leather briefcase (very classy and expensive looking), wore scuffed black shoes (kind of ruined the rest of the look) and topped off everything with the most amazing oiled immoving coiff of black wavy hair I have ever seen on a man. It positively gleamed and did not move an inch in the howling wind.

Said expensively dressed short man continued ambling and barking until within 2 metres of me, at which point he trod unintentionally on a discarded lip balm which flipped into the air and tinkled back to the pavement again. Stop. Look. Stop talking. Lift foot and tread on the lip balm again. Flip-tinkle. And again. Flip-tinkle. And again. He ended his phone conversation, turned and proceeded to flip-tinkle away from the bus stop down the street.

Aaah the diversity of a big city. Flip-tinkle.