Be The Jam

The Driver's perspective

Are there a lot of unhappy people in the world? This morning I passed a hitch-hiker standing outside the Wycombe Swan with a sign that said "A HAPPY PLACE..." He wasn't particularily scruffy but he needed a hair cut. He looked a bit sour. I wondered if he was An art student or genuinely un-happy. I thought he probably wouldn't want to come with me to work, it's not always a happy place and probably not worth taking a chance. But then I thought I could drop him off at T4 Arrivals - there's always happy people there being re-united with their loved ones etc... But then I struck on a simpler idea; If he simply wrote "SMILE :)" on the other side of his sign and smiled at people himself, they would naturally smile back and he wouldn't have had to go anywhere. In that case he would "be the Jam" but alas, by the time I reached this conclusion I was halfway down the M40 swearing at some tit in a scorpio.

words by The Jam Man