THE BABBLES ARE COMING

‘I was on the bus and thought I saw you sitting on some steps,’ he said. ‘Was it you?’
‘I was doing my laundry and was there waiting while it washed.’
‘Well,’ he said, ‘I got the bus all the way up to the end and then a group of youths with skateboards had a go at the driver because they thought he was going to take them further than he did so they got angry and then he got all authoritarian, over reacted if you ask me...’
‘Did he over react?’ I said.
‘Yes. Anyway, at some point the police were called and the driver said, “you’d better go, or you get arrested,” and one of the youths said, “the babbles are coming, let’s go.”’