you got a phone? did, and I was positive I was about to get 'jacked'. Being 15, pre-social media, a mobile phone was an vital tool for socialising and not an straightforward thing get hold of. I had been robbed before, I don't recall what phone I had at the time however with the mixture of fear being uncontactable/loosing numbers and dutch courage; I stood my ground.

again, got a phone for me blud?

I replied.

know you have man, come I just want to use your phone. this age I was already close to 6ft, perhaps about 16stone and playing rugby past my age. I was well used to going up alongside people and capable of looking after myself.

He reached towards my coat pocket, I reacted forcefully and drove my hands into his shoulders, pushing him backward agains the fence behind. The quiet grouping of people waiting for busses took notices where before they we doing the lot not to.

I can't think of what I said or he said, but I ended up reaching down into this outside jacket pocket and pulling out his mobile. I pocketed it and threw him to the ground.

you, how does it feel? I shouted, and immediately walked away.

As I passed the people waiting I could hear them giggle. I walked away feeling like I was made of steel. The bus stop was beside a tube station, I had to take a train to get home. I recall rushing down the stairs to catch one as before the doors closed and as I sat down in my seat the adrenaline subsided to the realisation of what had just happened.

I pulled from my pocket his 6600, brand new at the time and one of the first camera phones that could record short videos. I was all of a sudden elevated to having the coolest mobile phone in school, an achievement until that time kept for the rich kids.

My favourite thing about that phone was the pictures he had of him posing like a 'badman' matched with his soppy texts to his 'gurl', who he had a amount of pictures also. She was ugly as sin but to him she was his 'princess'.

Thinking back I ought to have given the phone to the police as It was doubtless stolen, though I guess if it wasn't then I would have committed the crime. There was noway I was letting go of it, I had a camera phone and now the means to film our stunts in school.

I doubt this fits your animation project but Its my best story from public transport. Its been a while since i've told it and remembering it brought a grin to my face, so cheers.

All in all a quite normal Thursday