Pouring with rain and the lady collector is sitting her little sentry box at Rotherhithe waiting for some of the populace to get off trains. A train is heard arriving down below and sure enough shortly after this heads and bodies hove into view coming up the escalator. The first are normal run-of-the-mill people coming home from work.Then a wonderful sight assails her eyes for ascending the moving stairs is an apparition. It is a 'Punk Rocker' in all his finery. Leather clothing, chains, badges, safety pins and all topped by the most beautiful spiked haircut you ever saw!
Not only that but the hair was multi-coloured like a rainbow on legs. 'I ain't gorra tikkit' says this vision. Now this is not unusual for the species so the lady TC says 'Where've you come from?' This brings a surprise in the the gent tells the truth and states where he actually HAS come from and not the previous station as they usually do.
'I just come from dahn Tootin' says the leatherclad lad. 'Ah, well thats £1.90 for you and 70p for your Parrot' .............Even the boy laughed.