In the past few days I've heard of a couple of interesting incidents here. First of all was the fact that the microwave in a friend's flat exploded. Nobody got wasted in the explosion but I don't think the fire evacuation was very enjoyable. I heard it was very smoky too. Apparently some prankster had switched on the microwave without anything inside and left it there, because when the microwave was investigated later, it was found to be empty.
I can't stress the importance of not playing with the microwave. The microwave is the life. When you are lazy, the microwave sings to you, feeds you, and warms your meals. I imagine that somebody did that because he got fed up with eating ASDA microwaved meals, and decided to take it out on the microwave, because he can't destroy the mammoth hypermarket that is ASDA. Either that, or he decided he wanted to buy the whole flat a new microwave because he thought the current one wasn't good enough.
Were you expecting me to say something along the lines of playing with the microwave is unsafe? The thing is, the microwave kind of works like a time bomb, so playing with it isn't really unsafe. It's just unsafe for the unfortunate soul who happens to walk in when it's about to go off. In that case, it's really just his or her bad luck.
Second was a case of racism, apparently carried out by white supremacists. Dom was standing at a traffic light waiting to cross the road, and some white guy stopped at the junction, wound down his car window and spat in his face, while the other girls in the car giggled. There's really nothing funny I can say about this incident, because it isn't funny at all.
Hearing about such an incident just makes one keenly aware of the fact that no matter what, you're still an outsider here. You don't look the same, you don't eat the same, and most of all, you don't speak the same. I really think such lowlifes should be punished by a good dose of Chinese martial arts, but I think they're more likely to drink themselves silly and crash their car before I can finish learning the basics of kungfu. Ok, I don't think. I hope.
I'm not going to take the high moral ground here and say people who are racist should die, because everyone is racist, it's just whether you want to admit it. I'm the first one who will admit that I crack racist jokes all the time. It's just that I don't condone spitting at another person no matter what the reason. I hope that son of a bitch gets mouth cancer or something, but in a world like this one, he's more likely to get off scot free. So if you are ever waiting at a traffic junction in England and you see someone winding down his window, prepare to dodge. Even if the guy inside the car is Chinese. Actually, especially if he's Chinese.