Monday afternoon went out the front of the University on to the High Street. The local authority local heroes were busy with shovels hurling rock salt on the pavements off the back of a big yellow lorry – five of them for a pavement. Health and safety by the shovelsfull.
Along comes a ned with his nedette on his arm, both wearing the shell suit uniform, pristine white trainers and baseball hats.
She shouts, "Heh gonnae geez a job?"
She shouts, "Heh gonnae geez a job?"
Foreman with eyecatching luminous jacket, hard hat and big shovel shouts, "Naw you couldnae dae this hen."
Nedette replies with lethal hair trigger wit, while rapidly chewing the gum, "Aye ah could. Ah used tae work in a chip shop."
At which point I have a vision of fish and chips, shovels of salt, and a possible clue to the West of Scotland epidemic of heart problems and sodium induced high blood pressure!
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