Thought I’d share a wee vintage post I first put up on Facebook in November 2012, precisely two years ago—an actual wee history/geography lesson I got that night on the number 38 to Spateston…
Boy: (of about 7/8) “Mam, who built Adrian’s Wall?”
Woman: “China.”
Boy: “Was it?”
Woman: “Aye. Ye can see it fae space.”
Boy: “Really?”
Woman: “Aye really.”
Boy: “Cool! Whit did they build it fur?”
(Thinks a bit…)
Woman: “Tae stop the English nicking tatties during the famine.”
Boy: “Whit’s a famine?”
Woman: “A plague that makes ye hungry that they got aff the Irish.”
Boy: “Whit’s a plague?”
(She’s getting annoyed now…)
Woman: “A disease.”
Boy: “Whit kind ae disease?”
Woman: “Like yer uncle Rab had at Easter.”
Boy: “Ye mean when he kept shiting his—”
Woman: “FUCK SAKE MICHAEL, GONNAE SHUT YER GUB AND STOP SHOWING ME UP IN FRONT AE FOLK.”