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‘Well I could walk 500 miles
and I could walk 500 more.’ Steve sang along with the song, it was impossible
not too.
‘I like this song,’ he said
to Johnny who was also singing along. Johnny nodded his agreement.
‘To fall down at your door’
they both finished the song with perfect timing, if not perfect pitch.
‘Good band the Proclaimers,’ said
Steve, really underrated I think. Catchy tunes, nice lyrics, good harmonies.
Yeah, good band.’
Johnny rattled a finger
around in his ear, did Steve really just say he liked the Proclaimers? It
wasn't that Johnny disagreed, it was just that Johnny couldn't believe his mate
was being positive about something.
‘Also, the weird thing about
the Proclaimers is that we laughed at them when they came out, do you
remember?’ Steve continued. ‘I mean they just looked so spoddy, didn’t they?
With those big, rimmed glasses, the slicked back hair and carrot jeans, but
look.' Steve pointed at the young barman who was dressed in carrot jeans, was
wearing big, rimmed glasses and had slicked back hair. 'They were ahead of
their time, they've gone from being clean cut mummy's boys to being
trendsetting, fashionistas.’
Johnny had to admit his
friend had a point, the 'Proclaimer' look was very much in, but he was still
shocked that Steve was being so upbeat, surely there was a big BUT coming
soon. But there wasn’t, Steve continued in this alien, positive vein.
‘and then there’s the line,
how does it go?’ Steve half mumbled and half hummed a line from the song until
he got to the point. ‘when the money comes
in for the work I do I’ll pass almost
every penny on to you.’ Steve sat back and smiled as if just saying the
words made the point. It didn’t.
‘And?’ Johnny said.
‘Well, isn’t it obvious, most
people would say every penny but the
Proclaimers, it’s almost every penny they just hold a little back for themselves for fags and booze. It’s lovely.’ Johnny couldn't handle this positivity, what
was going on? He decided to go to the bar hoping the break in conversation
would bring the real Steve back.
hahhaa... Steve is sweet:) and the funniest thing is how insecure and uncomfortable Johnny feels....:)
ReplyDeleteThe avarage walking distance is 3,1 miles per hour so If you wanted to cover 500 miles you would have to walk for 161 hours. So if you wanted to walk non stop you would need 6,7 days. Beacuse it is difficult for human beings to walk without stopping and sleeping lets assume that you only walk for 12 hours and rest for another 12. That means you need more or less two weeks to walk 500 miles:) Worth it?:)
ReplyDeleteI wish Steve had thought of these calculations :-)
DeleteI have just discovered that google maos calculate the distance fir you and they are quite accurate! Their calculations are more or less like mine and dont take sleeping time into consideration:-)
Delete:-) I'm his seignifiant other:) I sometimes I have to think for him:)
ReplyDeleteOh, oh, guess what's on the radio right now:-)
ReplyDeleteAnd now they are playing it again. Hardly ever have i heard this song before (it was not popular in my country at all) and now - twice in one hour:-) that means it must be an archive story :-)
ReplyDeleteAnd I've just been thinking about a Steve rant, minions might get the steve treatment.
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