Central shopping
It's become a bit of a routine these days that for my lunch break - when I can resist the temptation to take my dog to McDonald's - I go to the Centra shop opposite the City Hall in Belfast and a get a sandwich.
The curious thing about this shop is that they seem only to employ the kind of people who would scare off their customers. Nearly all the staff have faces that are perforated with bits of metal through tongues, lips, noses, and eyebrows; maybe they connect them all with a chain at the end of the shift and send them back to their cell. Some of them have tattoos as well as incredible hairstyles and they often have really bad heavy metal music on around the till area. (I don't want to sound intolerant or prudish or really old but that's probably what I am) The customers on the other hand seem to be completely normal, by my standards, they're not from that ghetto at all.
Today I went to the shop as usual but found none of the sandwiches very appealing. However, I noticed a few weeks ago that there's another Centra on the opposite corner of the same city block, so I went to that one instead. The only reason I mention this is because in this Centra it was just the same. The staff were lined up like a novelty horror show. (I'm going to have to start reading the Daily Mail at this rate!)
Does Centra have a policy of positive discrimination for the employment of Goths and self-mutilators? Or is there something about Centra that attracts them as workers but not customers? Has Centra been taken over by the Goth mutilating master, ming the merciless?
Any suggestions please.
posted by Rowland @ 9:30 pm
5 comments
5 Comments:
Thanks figure,
you can be my style guru from now on.
In the context of body piercing, where exactly is "the till area"? And what would you expect one to have "on" there?
Pete,
You're a very naughty boy
There's really no need for you to see naughtiness.
I think that you look at me and you see the naughtiness that is within you. Somehow I show it up. I am the light that illuminates the darkness within you and it scares you. It scares all of us sometimes.
Which is my suspicion as to why you have decided to study in a whole other country, rather than remaining in the city where we both have been for some time now. But even if you leave, you won't really be free from it. As sure as there will be Milky Bars, wherever you go there shall always be others like me - like us - and in being confronted by them, you shall be confronted by yourself.
Sometime you've just got to face what you are and say loudly and honestly to yourself and anyone else present:-
"If anyone here is naughty, it is I. And if anyone is not, it is Pete (who is not [naughty])."
You'll feel the better for it in the long term, I promise you.
Pete,
I think you're right in that my interpretation of your comment reveals my own naughtiness but I can't say it scares me. I don't think it really scares you either. I suspect you wrote it in such a way because you wanted me, and others, to interpret it that way even though it wasn't grammatically necessary. It might be said - and indeed it was said - that you're very naughty to do that; if that really is what you were doing, and I still think it is.
So, it seems that you're the one in denial about being naughty, I embrace my naughtiness. I see it as fun like a Carry On film - a little bit risque but not exactly evil.
I'm well aware that I have other dopplegangers, one of whom may be reading this, my application to Birmingham was made well before I found out about your impending return to these shores. Otherwise, maybe I would have stayed, maybe?
BTW what are you talking about when you say: 'the city where we both have been for some time now'?
You've been gallavanting off around Munich (possibly with a short, insignificant, break) since early May! I am not, nor have I ever been, in or near Munich. (Do they have Milky Bars there? Are they 'On you'?
So, thanks for your advice concerning the coming to terms with my naughtiness but I humbly reply, 'physician heal thyself' then maybe we can all be naughty together - in the nicest possible way.
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