I was sitting in the third row at History Boys with two old ladies sitting behind me. Clive Merrison (the headmaster) had just made a comment to Stephen Campbell Moore that learning didn't matter, as long as the boys got into the right schools. Then one of the ladies (who'd been rather chatty anyway) said rather loudly...
Woman: Sounds just like George W. Bush.
Me(turns and stares):?
It made me laugh.
And then there was a guy walking in front of me down 44th one af
