Calling all the heroes
Posted on July 25, 2007
Filed Under Life, Rants |
I’m finding Leith a bit of a drag now. Maybe it’s the smoking ban but I’m finding that there are more drunks and general wastrels on the streets these days. I say the smoking ban because the ban has resulted in early morning drinkers (Leith has an abundance of early morning bars due to the historical legacy of dockyard workers on shifts) having to stand in the streets to have a smoke.
Don’t get me wrong, I like a drink. Multiple drinks. Anyone who has shared my company will know that. What I dislike are modern day ‘jakeys’ with dark urine stains on their trousers, staggering around like they are participating in a Famous Grouse sponsored ‘Dawn Of The Dead Day’.
So, with that in mind, I have formulated a solution. The plan is to gather all of Leith’s famous ‘old school’ down and outs and jakeys. Men from a time when jakeying was an honest profession and long hours were spent savouring the QC sherry on a park bench. These men are the superhero’s of the jakey world. From ‘Cowboy Joe’ (pictured) to the big black guy who wanders Leith Walk in the mornings to the old boy who used to push a shopping trolley full of old car exhausts up Constitution Street. The fuckedtastic three. Those boys would clean up the streets.
In honour of these drinking and tramping legends, I’ve posted a photo I took a while back of Cowboy Joe, brown bag drinker, armed to the teeth with water pistols and dressed in his traditional cowboy garb. Note the Guns and Roses patch on the jacket. Rock and roll.
Joe. Leith needs you.
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