Just bumped into hecky on the school run

Asked if he was taking a year off but he didnt answer... Could indicate he's got something in the pipe line

 

Or perhaps that he feels he has no desire to speak to someone he probably doesn't know about his private life?

 

And also probably sick to death of being asked similar questions...

 

Bumped into Bobby Hassell at MediaCity, Salford yesterday. Didn't ask him anything.

 

Did you tell him that he is now despised by some, for daring to criticise the inner sanctum..

 

I was just being polite he's just an ordinary bloke at the end of the day people from Barnsley never seem to feel like their above anyone else which is a quality I admire

 

Funny really because I was under the impression he was despised by some fans for walking out on the club, for a club he claimed to hate from a child, long before that article came out

 

It's an invasive question if you don't know him, nothing whatsoever to do with politeness. Being polite would have been saying 'hello' or 'good morning'. It's got nothing to do with someone being above their station or down to earth either.

 

Well we can agree to differ I guess on that one a lot of Barnsley people I know seem to have conversations with people all the time I thought it was just people from down south that didn't talk to each other

 

Think this is different though. I bump into loads of people when out walking my dog. Some stop and talk, some say 'ayup' and some don't make any acknowledgement at all. I don't however ask anyone i don't know about their personal life.

 

Personally would just say hello & leave it at that.

 

I've seen him a lot of times so it's not as if we are complete strangers he said on radio Sheffield a few weeks ago he was having a year off so it's not as if he's made it a secret

 

In a few hours i'm going to take a bus to Vauxhall, jump on a train to St Pancras and meet my mum whos spending a few days down here, and it will be in near perfect silence apart from a few announcements here and there. It's bloody wonderful to not get pestered, asked stuff and generally break radio silence. Just thinking time. Its wonderful.

At first I mistook it for being rude, or unpleasant, or unfriendly. What it actually is are lots of people with busy lives doing something more interesting or important than talking to some random stranger.

What amazes me, when up north (sweeping generalisation alert, apologies), is the amount of pointless crap spoken AT someone, interspersed with loves and ducks. etc. if you listen in, its just two people talking at each other but not listening. Its not a conversation, its 2 soliloquys in open view. Its a bit weird, oddly intriguing. Then they head off, happy that they've had a friendly chat, ready to start the next one with someone else they've never met.

Maybe some content for a future Attenborough series covering all walks of life in their daily ongoings. Fascinating.

 

Your fellow dog walkers aren't in the public eye therefore you don't know anything about them so naturally you wouldn't ask , unlike Heckingbottom who is and therefore its unavoidable that people are going to approach him on occasion . I'm sure Barnsleyphil was only being friendly so it wouldn't have hurt Heckingbottom to acknowledge him in some way .

 

I know we're all different, but for me, meeting and getting into conversations with random strangers is a delightful experience which I thoroughly enjoy. I've made friends all over in this way. On the other hand, journeys on public transport in and around London have been, for me, quite horrible experiences. Each to their own of course.

 

You should have asked Hecky if he was having 48 weeks and 3 days off (wotever) since you'd heard him mention having a year off on the radio.
If you didn't have a dog, then Hecky could be looking at this: http://www.protectionagainststalking.org/what-to-do/

 

He posed with a photo with me as well so I don't think he thought I was being rude... But I understand both sides to it if he hadn't been smiling and chatty then I wouldn't have asked but because he seemed happy I decided to... In hindsight maybe I did the wrong thing

 

That's a relief, Phil ... depending on what you were doing with your right hand

 

More like an Alan Bennett play,possibly starring Thora Hird if she was still alive

 

A conversation when you've the time can be a very pleasant thing. With the hectic nature of London, the tube and public transport is a nice break from it. Though on a train, I tend to find I'm working or doing something anyway. On a weekend, if I'm heading a bit further out on overground, depending on the area, its nice to just look out of the window and see things you wouldn't normally see. You cant generally do that when someone is jibbing your earole about how expensive things are, the weather, what a carry on it is and other banal gubbins.

Now if you go to one of the growing brewery tap rooms in and around London.… you'll get plenty of chat, most of it interesting too.