An observed story part 3

Tonight on the train I met Peter's brother,  Evan. What I learned about Evan is that, when drunk he is very happy, friendly and trusting to the point of giving me hid phone and then nearly getting off the train without it! I think since he was the one that kept getting hit by Peter's girlfriend that the trusting nievity is there when he's sober too. I'm glad he now has a name so that we don't have to keep referring to him as Peter's brother.
I also overhead a lovely encounter as two lads that haven't seen each other since they were at school bumped into each other. This could be a nice positive thing to happen to Peter since it's all been pretty glum for him so far.  All I really learned is that Peter and Phil were in the same year at school, they've recently become Facebook friends,  Peter has put on weight since school and Phil was quiet at school.
Another couple of pieces of the puzzle slot into place.

An observed story part 2

This evening there has been another development. As well as being a people watcher I am also a magnet for random people who want to talk and tonight I had one of those. As I walked passed a man (carrying what looked like a large clear plastic bag if clothes) and woman talking in the street the man started walking away from the woman in the same direction as me, still talking away I assumed to the woman but then I realised he was talking to me! "I can't do it" he said. I made some non committal noise of agreement as seems to be suitable when a random person starts talking to you and you have no idea what they're on about. He continued to explain to me that he couldn't break the woman's door down. She could call the police and accuse him. Seemed to be a fair enough reason not to do it but I'm still not entirely sure why I needed to know this. Anyway, could it be that Peter's girlfriend tried to convince someone to break her door down then accused Peter and his brother of breaking in?

An observed story part 1

Life itself is full of theatrical adventures and I love to people watch. Commuting to work by train I overhear a lot of snippets of conversations and have wondered if these snippets could be pieced together into a story. Take Monday,  as a man and I crossed on the stairs I heard the following fantastic sentence:
"When he died he left my brother and I a load of magic tricks but no instructions."
Instantly we have three characters; a desd magician and two brothers with a load of magic tricks they can't perform!
I then went to the cash point and sitting on there was a yellow envelope, looked like a birthday card, addressed to Peter. Is Peter one of our brothers?  Does he know he's lost his birthday card?
Fast forward to today and two men are waiting at the train station (our brothers maybe) when a woman appears from nowhere and starts shouting and swearing at them. Most of it seems to be aimed at the one (Peter?) but the other isn't so quick to get out of the way so gets hit twice! When the police arrive it transpires that her home has been broken into and she thinks they did it but our Peter character shouts before making his get away that she was with another man last night. So is this Peter's girlfriend?  Did they go out for his birthday and she went off with another man? Is that why he abandoned his birthday card at the cashpoint? And who broke into her house? I have no idea but it might be fun finding out.