Archive for the 'Glasgow' Category

11-21-2007

Christmas lights on already? What a nightmare

If this wasn’t a work-related blog I’d be swearing my head off. Went into Glasgow city centre on Sunday (yeah, I know, I won’t be making that mistake again in a hurry) to get a couple of things and what? It’s suddenly bloody Christmas? Christmas songs in all the shops, Christmas decorations everywhere, people going totally apesh*t with credit cards and worrying about getting that perfect present for some git in their family - and it was only November 18th! Not that I’m advocating that kind of consumerist feeding frenzy EVER, but you know second week in December I could maybe let you off with it. And the huge fuss, a ticketed event no less, for the turning on of the lights in George Square. Utter madness. A town full of idiots with lots more money (or credit) than sense.

Oh my god everybody please stop this madness. No wonder the UK has such a massive consumer debt (what is it, 1.3 trillion pounds at the moment?). No wonder everyone is depressed. I certainly was. It took me over an hour of Wife Swap on the telly to calm down (but don’t get me started on reality tv). And a couple of pints of course.

Bah humbug indeed.

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11-19-2007

Is that you pal?

Full transcript of a conversation overheard at the till at the BP garage in Ibrox last Sunday morning:

Attendant: “Is that you pal?”

Customer: “Aye”

Absolutely classic Glasgow.

(Translation:

Attendant: “Would you like anything else with that, sir?”

Customer: “No thank you, my good man. That will be all.”)

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10-09-2007

Caring Old Guy

I was getting off the tube at Hillhead on Saturday evening. As I squeezed past an old dude in an old man’s suit, he muttered to me “mind yersel, son”. Not in a threatening way. Like he was trying to keep me safe from the evils of that area of town (of which there are many on a weekend).

His like won’t be around for too long I thought. Until I got the whiff of booze as the doors closed behind me.

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