James鈥 existential journey to find himself and Susie
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James didn鈥檛 want people to think it would be funny if they ended up marrying and doing up a bungalow in Devon, or to own ducks and bake scones in during old age.
He wanted people to think it was a rather desirable thought.
James didn鈥檛 want people to think it would be funny for people to bump into him in 15 years鈥 time and have no clue who he was.
He didn鈥檛 want to sit in some New Addington Costa and have Susie, from psychology, look at him from behind the cake counter and wonder why he looked so familiar. He knew she鈥檇 only forget about it and go back to making a sloppy cappuccino with the wrong sort of milk, sugar and foam in it.
James didn鈥檛 really know why he thought people would refer to encountering him as 鈥渇unny.鈥 Maybe it was his French teacher from years ago who didn鈥檛 remember him but told him in impeccable French that it was funny, he looked just like a student she used to teach.
She clearly didn鈥檛 remember his straight Es in A-level French.
Maybe it wasn鈥檛 her that made him think this was how people saw him. Maybe it was Susie. It was probably Susie.
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