014. ...your time traveller's boiler suit...

(afternoon thinking)

I'm in Staines, where Ali G is from. It's funny how life works out. When I first watched Ali G on television I'd never have thought that one day i'd have caught a bus to Staines. Isn't life funny!

if you'd said "one day you'll eat a gluten free and vegan roll with hummus on the bus to Staines" I'd have scoffed at your naivety. All the way back then, when Ali G was new, I'd not known I was gluten intolerant and I thought veganism was a ludicrous, delusional cult. I doubt I'd even have heard of hummus.

Back then I was fueled mostly by Gregg's steak bake, Iron Bru, Monster Munch, cheap wine and hash.

I think if you'd wandered in wearing your time traveller's boiler suit and told me, that one day I'd prepare a packed lunch in a Teddington hotel room I'd not have believed you. Just that bit on its own would have seemed wildly out of character. If you then went on to describe the roll and the reasons for its peculiar contents I'd have dismissed you as a fantasist.

I think that would have been reasonable given that you'd be talking space-time distortion fields and professing to be a prophet from the near future but you'd have been right eh? I'd probably have been stoned though. It might even have happened. Did it?

NB. According to the BBC hummus has now thoroughly penetrated the UK dips market and is commonplace even in rural shops. What a time to be alive. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15148342