Never judge a book by it’s cover!

Well shame... because today I did just that. I stepped out of my car and I saw the youth looking at me. When he started to walk towards me; I felt nervous. The young man was dressed casually; he was about 18 years old. Around 5ft 10 with fair hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a grey hoodie, a yellow t-shirt, baseball cap, baggy jeans and trainers. He was also listening to headphones, possibly an iPod because the earphones were white, a diamond stud in his ear and a ring on the middle finger of his left hand.

Why do I know all this about his appearance? I took a good look just in case I needed to describe my attacker to the police. My attacker to the police indeed? It was broad daylight... 9 o’clock in the morning. I’m not saying attacks don’t happen in the morning, but the street was busy and he would have had a hard job running anywhere without bumping into the swarm of people going to work.

The young man walked up to me and said excuse me, do you know where Stonehouse Street is please. I gave him directions and he said thank you, smiled and walked down the road.

I must be getting old to be making such narrow-minded judgements about our youth! Either that or I’m a big fat hypocrite.

When I’m preaching love and unity and telling people “never judge a book by its cover”, you have every right to cough out the words bullsh*t! I say this with a heavy heart.