The Human Zoo2000

Narrator:
There are unwritten rules on how to behave when meeting or approaching a stranger for the first time.

[Charlie has seated himself at the table of a man in the same cafeteria. He reaches and takes a sip from Angry Man's cup of tea, who immediately leans over and grabs it back]

Charlie Skelton:
I was just having a little, a little sip. I have a bit of a dry throat.

Narrator:
Break one of these rules, and you've got a problem. Break two, and you're heading for trouble.

[Angry Man shakes his head in disbelief, then reaches forward again as Charlie dunks his biscuit into the tea-cup]

Angry Tea-Drinking Man:
Do you want to thin out, or do you want me to throw you out?

Charlie Skelton:
Sorry?

Angry Tea-Drinking Man:
You 'eard.

Charlie Skelton:
Just having a little dunk of biscuit.

Angry Tea-Drinking Man:
[points his finger toward the exit] D'you mind disappearing? Or do I go and get somebody to make you disappear?

Charlie Skelton:
Look, you've obviously come up, got out of the wrong side of bed.

Angry Tea-Drinking Man:
[standing in a threatening manner] No, I 'aven't got out of the wrong side of bed at all. Do you mind stopping? [Grabs Charlie's notebook and thrusts it at him] Now, whatever this is, take it and disappear.

Charlie Skelton:
[faux-innocently] I'll leave you the biscuits, okay?

Charlie Skelton:
No, I don't want the biscuits. No.

Charlie Skelton:
Here, take that one. Look, I've dunked it already, so you might as well have it. Here, have it.

[the Angry Man pushes Charlie's arm away, then grabs him and marches him offscreen]

Narrator:
Charlie broke the rules on purpose to prove how dramatic the consequences can be.