Sign A Petition And Do Some Good

Two of my pals were at a bus stop outside The Bombay Palace in Glasgow on a Monday night a few weeks ago.

A young woman staggered up to them and stood in front of them, swaying slightly. Either under the the influence of drink or drugs.

In the typical nasal voice of the Glaswegian scum, she asked if they could maybe help her. They thought she was going to ask for money or cigarettes,

"Can yous maybe sign a petition to help me get my wean* back?"

She was swaying about, her skin was in a shite condition and they said she looked a perfect example of a smackhead. One of the guys just ignored her and started to walk away and she began to crowd the other guy, really getting in his face, saying that she really needed to get her kid back. He tried to back off and get away from her but she kept coming at him.

He didn't want to tell her to fuck off as he didn't want stabbed so he just kept telling her 'No' until she left him alone.

Have you ever heard anything like that?


* "wean" is a Scottish word for child, see...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=wean

A Bit Old For A Tracksuit

Recently on Buchanan Street I saw a rather disturbing site. A fortyish year old man out of his mind on something.

His eyes were barely open, and he was swaying left to right and occasionally stumbling a few feet, nearly falling on top of a baby in a pushchair. It wasn't his drink/drug induced state which alarmed me though.

He was wearing a bloody white Lacoste tracksuit with wee bits of sky blue, mismatched Adidas tracky trousers and white socks tucked into his untied white trainers. I shouldn't judge him. Maybe he stopped off for a pint on his way back from the gym.

What a sad advert for Glasgow though. A forty year old in a tracksuit.