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This week\u2019s star customers were the three teenagers I caught drawing with red pen on the poster cases. I was \u201csomewhat peeved\u201d.\u00a0 Does being nice to people when they first arrive count for nothing?!!<\/p>\n

\u201cHey stop that! Someone\u2019s going to have to clean that up. I yelled.(not to mention that I have to report it\u2026 in triplicate.)<\/p>\n

\u201cOh sorry Miss\u201d said the girl with the pen.\u00a0 And then she made it all worse by coming up to me with an incredibly cheeky grin on her face and saying, \u201cI\u2019m very, very sorry. I couldn\u2019t help it.\u00a0 It\u2019s been a stressful day.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was confounded by this.<\/p>\n

\u201cUm Fair enough!\u201d I muttered.\u00a0 But the grin sent a bright red bullet of fury into my brain.<\/p>\n

As she turned to go, I called out \u201cHey\u201d and as she turned back to face me, I lifted up my mobile and clicked it at her.<\/p>\n

By then I realized I\u2019d done something rash. There were three of them and one was a very large lad.\u00a0 So I took myself off and locked myself in the office till the train came and took them away.\u00a0 As I closed the door behind me, I heard her friend say,<\/p>\n

\u201cDid she just take your picture?\u201d so they knew what I\u2019d done. Result! (pumps fist in air)<\/p>\n

(I didn’t actually manage to take a picture \u2013 I\u2019m a complete Klutz in these matters)<\/p>\n

They haven\u2019t been back.<\/p>\n

But honestly. Since when has graffiting been a cure for stress.\u00a0 What happened to a good book, a nice cup of tea or a lie down?!!!!<\/p>\n

Station Stories – where we ask all the hard existential questions.<\/p>\n

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This week\u2019s star customers were the three teenagers I caught drawing with red pen on the poster cases. I was \u201csomewhat peeved\u201d.\u00a0 Does being nice to people when they first arrive count for nothing?!! \u201cHey stop that! Someone\u2019s going to have to clean that up. I yelled.(not to mention that I have to report it\u2026 …<\/p>\n

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