At a wedding last summer, one of the guests - a lad in his early twenties - took a shine to me and everywhere I turned, there he was. I don't know why - I was only playing in the band that had been hired.
Anyway, I just started chatting to him and he just kept saying, "Oh, I wish I could play the guitar. Be on a band and all that.." I told him he could learn to play the guitar and he could be in a band if he felt like doing those things. He just shook his head as if I was telling him he could grow to being ten feet tall if he put his mind to it. That happened frequently.
Later, in the queue for food, I found him stood behind me again and this time he said, "Do you know what I really want to do?" I resisted asking him if he wanted to play he guitar and be in a band because he and his family were rough as arseholes, and said, "No, what do you really want to do?"
"Paedophile hunter" he said, like he was telling me he wanted to go and find a cure for cancer or something. Which is probably along the lines of what he thought.
I asked him why he wanted to do that and he didn't seem to know why. He didn't seem worried about getting paid for it or anything either.
Maybe that's it. Maybe these people really want to perform some civil duty but have no skills or desire to learn how to actually do anything and this is the best they can come up with.
I think they want patting on the back for serving a community and being like Robin Hood or something and this is he best they can do, based on watching/appearing on things like Jeremy Kyle, which is basically the same thing, isn't it? Shouting at somebody in front of an audience of their peers.
Funny business, but not very surprising I suppose.