Estate agents

There's an unfortunate trend around London which I suspect will have already spread to other cities of estate agents driving around in new Minis or Beetles in some gaudy company livery. I don't know if this slick image impresses some but for many, myself included, it portrays these estate agents as pretentious in the exteme and lets face us it's not as if their line of work has a particularly rosey reputation to begin with.

However my impression of these purveyors of pretentiousness was solidified this past week when leaving home at lunchtime I emerged in the middle of something of a spat between a man on a street and a car driver. The car heading off down the road now but the pedestrian with going completely ape. "You didn't have to brake you f***ing c***!" was a line he repeated with considerable anger and even came close to swinging his bag of purchases from Sainsburys down the street after the car before sense engaged and he clearly thought better of it.

I thought this guy must be a total loon, and I was hoping that he didn't live on my street, as he clearly has major issues with those around him. At that moment he unlocked a car - a tarted up estate agents Mini and got in. Well, that really did it for me. I thought little of these bunch slick haired cretins to begin with (on a previous occasion another employee of this same company thought it better to run me over than wait 5 seconds for me to cross in front of their stationary car), but it seems that these people are beyond the pale.

A number of these same estate agents in my area have had their windows apparently kicked in during recent weeks. Although I can't condone criminal damage, which I suspect was done by some lads at the end of a particularly beered up evening, perhaps these companies should take it as a sign that they are not held in high regard, or at the very least on par only with phoneboxes, that seems to be vandalised with similar regularity.