A funny thing happened while waiting for the #30 bus to Clovenstone. I was standing in the bus shelter, minding my own business, when in rushed a young man holding a liquor bottle. In his early 20s, he was dressed quite stylishly. He was accompanied by a pretty woman in her late teens, who wore a nice dress and sheer black stockings.
“Sir,” she asked me, “Would you like to buy some vodka? Really cheap.”
The bottle still had the grey plastic security device clasped to the vodka bottle’s neck.
I declined politely.
The man started to jimmy the plastic off the bottle using a knife they’d apparently borrowed from the neighboring kebab stand.
The girl coaches the lad, admonishing him that he’s got the technique all wrong.
“You’re going to bend the knife!” she cries.
Sure enough, the knife gets bent, then slips, cutting into the boys knuckle.
“Oh, now you’ve done it,” she says, then puts her lips to his wound, sucking on it. She then straightened. “The kebab bloke’s going to be pissed.”
He continues to saw away at the Smirnoff’s. She periodically draws her index finger over his bleeding knuckle and licks at the blood, as if it were a fine delicacy.
Finally, the device pops off, freeing the vodka for consumption at last. The girls then furiously starts to unbend the knife on her thigh. She seemed to be more concerned about getting the 40 pence knife back to its rightful owner than the place the illicit bottle came from.
Seconds later they dashed out into the night and I was left alone in the bus shelter once again.
Anyway, this is the second to last night in Edinburgh. Its been quite a trip.
But my adventures are not over quite yet...
Tomorrow, Antony, the fellow who runs the tiling school, will pick me up and take me to a job he is working on. It is quite a high-end project, with expensive tiling and fixtures. I hope I don't break anything.
But now that I've been through the mill, I feel ready and keen to take on projects of my own.
So thanks for bearing witness to my little tiling journey in Scotland. I hope you enjoyed the ride as much as I did.
In closing, here are a few last photos...
This is the tiling bay before
...and this is the tiling bay after (only the requisite bits were done)
Note the superb siliconing job
Here's Stuart taking a photo of one of my tricky cuts for posterity
A little souvenir of my participation in class (the red in the maple leaf was blood from my left forefinger)
Sterling Castle (this is where I went today)
Another shot of the castle
So its goodby from the Peffermill Industrial Estate. See you when I get home!
Mark
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Well done!
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