I received my Tetanus jab this morning. It turned out to be a bit of a ‘buy one get two free’ affair, with Diptheria and Polio innoculations thrown in due to the fact that they no longer issue tetanus only jabs. That’s me covered for the next ten years by which time I will (scarily) be 45 years old.
My journey back from the Doctors brought to my attention exactly how cold it is becoming. Edinburgh is a cold city anyway but the fact that we have fucked up the Ozone layer in recent years has made it slightly more pleasant, even up until October most years. However, the first day of November definitely has a nip to it.
Heading home along Junction Street, I bumped into Cowboy Joe. Joe is a local celebrity. An old school eccentric who is probably now in his late 70’s, Joe spends his entire life dressed as a cowboy, complete with hat, sheriffs badge and boot lace tie. Joe is surely one of 9/11’s most obscure victims. Due to heightened fear amongst police officers of terrorists wandering around with guns (or more accurately, fear of shooting innocent members of the public who happen to be a wee bit nuts and waving toy guns), Joe’s trademark six shooters have been confiscated. He now roams his patch with two rather ridiculous looking flourescent water pistols. He still manages the sound effects though, and it won’t be the first time I’ve been told to ’stick em up’.
Nipping into the supermarket to buy this evenings dinner I found the store to be full of schoolkids on their lunch break. A bit of a hassle due to lengthy queues. Anyway, one of the schoolkids, a lad of no more than 16 had a full face beard !!! Not one of those little bumfluff efforts but a real full face beard. Like a pirate. I couldn’t grow one now and I’m 35. What’s the world coming to. It should be banned. Banned I tell you.
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