no-one in particular
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I used to fish with a group of brothers from the East End many years ago; rough types but, the salt of the earth. One day on returning from a fishing trip we were all dying for a pint and the driver suddenly pulled into a posh hotel and said this will do. I must admit I had my doubts but, these guys were a bit of a law until themselves so, in we went; found the bar and ordered our pints. However, there was a posh bird sitting at the bar with her friend chatting away about god knows. No problem but, she was smoking a cigarette and kept flicking her ash behind her into an ash tray right next to my mate. She frequently kept doing this without looking and there was more ash on the bar than in the ash tray; you get the picture. Now my mate was good bloke but, he didn’t have a reputation for patience. I could see he was getting a bit agitated as he was sitting right next to the posh bird and his pint was surrounded by ash; the signs were ominous. Then the next bit of ash landed in his pint and I really started to worry, with justification. As quick as a flash he pulled out two or three handfuls of maggots from his pocket and filled up the ash tray to the brim so that some of them were spilling onto the bar. We were all mortified and struggled to keep our composure. After a minute she turned round to flick her next bit of ash into the ashtray. She screamed and fell off her stool and I learnt something that day, that posh birds have posh knickers but, not necessarily posh language. Just wondered if Posh Paul had any thoughts on this. By the way the manager appeared and threw us out. My enduring memory of this incident is my mate pleading with the manager on the steps of the hotel (without any irony) to let him back in so he could retrieve his maggots but, he lacked any sense of humour or sense of fair play and wouldn’t have it. What do you think?