Heckling buskers....it's not big or clever



Saw the most bizarre sight on the way home of a busker being heckled by a drunken bloke on the District Line. I'm not a great fan of buskers who make their way along the carriages of the train and if I have a walkman I put it on the minute they appear, otherwise stare into the pages of a book or paper as though it's the most interesting thing in the world and try to imagine they are not there.



So when the talentless (formerly pink haired) busker who does the District Line got on about to wail out REM's "Losing my Religion" for the thousandth time, I inwardly groaned. Although not quite as loud as the inner groan, when the man sitting in the seat nearest him said:



"You're not gonna sing are you?.....You're not gonna play that guitar?



Pointless rhetorical questions.



Egged on by his equally drunken mate, the drunk then proceeded to "sing" along with the busker in the lines of:



Busker: "I thought that I heard you laughing"



Drunk: "I thought you needed a wash"



Busker: "I think I thought I saw you try"



Drunk: "I think I'm gonna need a shower"



Fortunately, this only lasted two stops, which "I think I thought" was two stops too many.