Mike

“Vince was notorious. He would easily have been the world’s most terrifying human had he but been human. I don’t know quite what he was, other than it was five feet six inches of wiry malevolence in a grubby T-shirt. Reliable rumor had it that he had not been born, but burst fully formed from his mother’s belly and then skittered off to the sewers.”
― Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island: A hilarious farewell tour of Great Britain—from foggy Dover to Loch Ness—by an American expat who called it home for 20 years