Nice stories so far
here's mine:
I commute from Richmond park area to Kensington 5 days a week. Always taking camera with me - you never know what might happen on London streets. Usually the camera just sits in the bag as a dead weight and very rarely soething really happens. So one day, I woke up and felt slight pain in my shoulder. I said OK, maybe I'd leave camera at home today.
As I got off the bus in Hammersmith as I always do, there was heavy traffic and just about every other car was sounding horn. I looked at them and thought what the heck, no rain, no mist, no frost (any of these three turn London into traffic nightmare) unless there wasn't accident traffic should be fine. As I approached crossing I saw the reason. This big guy, with dreadlocks, bit shabby (not homelles but not one of the top 10,000 either) holding his cardboard transparent saying something about the end of the world, on his chest, was walkin right in the middle of the road in opposite direction on traffic flow, with every car just avoiding him like if he was poisoneus. Scene that street photographer could wish for, I was imagining it in my head in B&W. Yes, it would look right. I reached to my bag and.....
grabbed my lunch box, I left the camera home, didn't I...
After this, I very rarely go to work without my camera anymore...
I hope he'll come back
BR