Tube Ride

Have you ever had an unexpected conversation with a stranger that went off the tracks and took you on a journey well outside your comfort zone, and yet, led you to a cumfortable place you never expected to go to?

Jon Hardwick’s routine tube journey does exactly that! His Tube ride becomes rather memorable when a tattooed stranger cums up to talk to him.

This story is inspired by an actual conversation I had with a tattooed guy on the tube one day. I was a newbie on Tumblr at the time and had seen countless tattoos of sexy and scary variety. At the time, paw print tattoos were all the rage – bear claw, fox foot, lion’s paw etc were all over the tumblr blogs I followed at the time.

Guy opposite my seat had an amazing array of tattoos all over his body and his baldhead. A large bear claw was the most prominent of all. Checking the carriage for absence of any familiar faces, I took a gamble and started up a conversation with the scary-tattooed guy. It was the oddest, craziest conversation I have ever had – in or out of the tube!