The Old Greenwich Gap

The distance, the old Greenwich gap between you and someone who's very drunk and you're trying to move back, but they want to try and get a bit more inside you, space. The physical distance. Because they think you're not. And they just misjudge it.

verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-204b · clerk J.B.

The inch of air maintained between yourself and a stranger on a packed tube or train. It has to always be there at all times. At least that inch, yeah. It's a force field.

verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-201 · clerk B.J.W.

What a South London gangster crosses when he ventures into another firm's territory. ¶

verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-204b · clerk G.L.S.

A shop where young hip sailors get their gear.

verified Mr. H. Okafor · TML/F-217 · clerk C.P.

The cracked pavement with white paint around it. Like some sort of crime scene.

verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-204 · clerk C.P.

The time between your alarm going off and when you finally drag yourself out of bed.

verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-201 · clerk R.O.M.

The term used to describe the dangerously small space between two cars that you jump into to avoid sitting in a queue.

verified Dr. J. Marston · TML/F-204 · clerk C.P.

The parking space your mum has to get out of the car and let your dad, the crafty veteran, reverse into. And then he's added, he's still got it.

verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-217 · clerk A.D.

The tan line left by your watch strap. ¶

verified Mr. G. Coleridge · TML/F-217 · clerk A.D.

The slight delay that all 90s international news correspondents had. But it wasn only that though. It was always thinking they lost the signal. Sort of moving their heads around like a sort of coot. And then always talking over each other.

verified Mrs. P. Akande · TML/F-201 · clerk M.L.

That split second between dropping something and it hitting the floor. When everything sort of goes in slow motion.

verified Mrs. E. Tindall · TML/F-217 · clerk H.M.