Imagine If There Were No Street Lights
- 2. Street lights are an abomination. Imagine if there were no street lights
- 1. I can…
- 2. Wouldn't the streets feel better walking though, wouldn't town and cities feel like the real spaces they are - rather than everything painted in a florescence.
- 1. Don't you think there might be problems with this?
- 2. I don't see how. I think people would be happier if the was light in the way we expect - I think lights during the evening always make me feel odd - off - it is not something natural.
- 1. I think you're getting confused here. You're saying people feel crazy because, deep down, they can't handle light when it is supposed to be dark?
- 2. Yeah -
- 1. -Well don't you think more nasty things would happen to people at night, in the dark, than they might in lit areas?
- 2. I think that is quite unfair. Roads wouldn't be completely pitch black - some people's houses would be lit-up a little.
- 1. There would be a glow...
- 2. And on a clear night people would be able to navigate by moon-light.
- 1. I really think that there are more stabbing and muggings in dark places than in well lit places
- 2. I just don't think this is true - I think you only think that because you've been told to be scared of the dark.
- 1. - Wait - you think that it is unnatural to have lit streets because it is unnatural - and it is also unnatural to be scared of the dark.
- 2. I think it is unnatural for the modern man to be scared of the dark. Your eyes adjust. If everyone's eyes adjusted we wouldn't need street-lights
- 1. So people should be encouraged to just learn how to see in the dark?
- 2. Yeah.
- 1. What about cars?
- 2. What do you mean?
- 1. What about when you're driving your car back form work at night, and you don't have a lights and you really can't see that far in front of you.
- 2. Well, firstly my car would cost less when replacing bulbs.
- 1. I think it would cost more in the long run – you know, after you’ve run a few people down, knocked a few kerbs…
- 2. Okay, so maybe cars keep their lights –
- 1. So now we have a situation where cars have lights and no one else does. So what about a mugger who hangs out on a junction waiting for victims to get dazzled by some headlights -
- 2. Maybe everyone should be trained in kung-fu…
- 1. Except the muggers?
- 2. Yeah.
- 1. When do you teach them?
- 2. At school, obviously.
- 1. How do you know which ones are going to be muggers when they grow up?
- 2. Do you mean you could never tell?
- 1. Could you?!
- 2. Of course!
- 1. Like who?
- 2. Do you remember Geoffrey Quintice?
- 1. No.
- 2. Well, he was one of those kids who always used to throw stuff and nick stuff and generally be a pain to teachers.
- 1. Riigght?
- 2. Well, I knew that he was always going to turn to a life of crime.
- 1. Quintice was the one who stole your pencil-case in art and wrapped it in clay wasn't he?
- 2. I really don't feel this is relevant.
- 1. No, he was wasn't he? Do you remember the noise that the explosion mad in the kiln? That really went bang.
- 2. I do not think this affects my assertions however. I knew from that age he would always turn to a life of crime. A low and behold last month he got banned from driving.
- 1. Seriously?
- 2. Yeah he was going waaaay too fast-
- 1. - no I mean, seriously, that's what you call a life of crime?
- 2. I bet he has parking tickets too.
- 1. I think we ought to speed up if we want to catch this thing.
- 2. Yeah, okay.
- *slight jog*
