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Apparently the Blind Beggar was a
notorious haunt of the Kray
brothers in which Jack "The Hat" McVitty was killed. It certainly
contained some interesting, very large skin-headed men whose pint you
would not wish to spill. It had the appearance of a place where the
primary focus was not the business of drinking but planning nefarious
deeds.
Five preppy chaps ordering girlie half pints may not be
someting
these people are used to ... three minutes later we were out of there
and moving on. At this point Wode
was wearing the "hat" pin badge from Monopoly and there was some
discussion as to whether we should make him go into the pub with a car
jack in his right hand and a packet of digestives in his left ...
common sense and practicality prevailed ...
Sinisterly I found a strange
pound coin in my change later on in the day ... we chose to assume
that this did not mean I was now a marked man (half a year later I am
starting to relax).
By this time Wode was
beginning to feel the ill effects of a) his cold and b) sinking two
half pints he did not want at all. And, as we jogged back to
Whitechapel tube station, he
announced the need to stop for sustenance
and proceeded to get stuck behind someone in a newagents for whom the
apparently simple transaction of purchasing a newspaper and a Mars bar
was an intellectual feat of almost intractable difficulty ... and the
clock ticked on. After what seemed like an age, but was probably in
fact only about two minutes, Wode
emerged triumphant with a bottle of Vittel and two bananas (not a
recommended choice for a pub crawl in my mind, but it takes all sorts).
Then, another tube journey (six stops up the Hammersmith and
City
line) to our first station of the day ...
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