Skunk:
Oh no no, I think it, it’s perfect here.
cog:
Yeah.
Skunk:
My landlord is he’s really, really he’s when I moved in and I said “Do you want
a deposit?” and he said “Oh no it doesn’t matter”, you know, he always says
things like “Life’s too short for” or if I break anything he says “Life’s too
short to worry about that” you know “it’s only an egg-cup, or a saucer” or
something, you know, “Don’t fuss”.
cog:
How old is he?
Skunk:
He’s forty-five I think, forty-five or forty-six and he’s, I mean I don’t spend
a lot of time talking to him,
laughing
Skunk:
I don’t spend any time talking to
cog:
Yeah you were saying.
Skunk:
him, but he eh I mean he se-, he’s fine, he’s a rea-, I don’t know if I would
have anything to say to him and I don’t know if he worries you know that ehm
maybe his other tenants have been really talkative people and they sat around
together and had meals together and stuff like that I don’t know, but he works
a lot anyway so... Andrew called up the other day and said he wanted to come up
here, maybe to live, and could he stay in the in in the house until he could
get a flat or something and I was thinking oh damn I’m going to have to say to
the landlord now oh
his
entreaty whimpered
Skunk:
“Can my friend come and live in the house?” and I was thinking oh damn
oh damn and I said and I said to him yesterday I said ehm “My friend’s
coming up for a break would it be okay if he stayed here for a while, until he
gets” and he said “Oh Skunk you mustn’t worry about these things,
it’s okay yeah it’s no trouble” and I thought, I just wanted to, you know, run
to work or something, I was just really relieved. But he is a nice, a really
nice guy, as any of my friends who’ve stayed with me will testify, I mean I
don’t know but everybody has big chats with him except for me. When Dominic and
his girlfriend came up they spent the whole night with him drinking wine and
watching tv and having a talk, and meanwhile I was up in my room thinking
dammit what am I going to say to him tomorrow?
Laughter.
cog:
I’m like that I I... I never used to eh... sort of say a lot to any any of the
people that I sort of lived with that’s why I was so happy when I like got a
place of my own and
Skunk:
Uh-huh.
cog:
a- and my parents couldn’t understand why um, why I just like wanted this place
all on my own, no-one else, they sort of said “Oh yes two bedrooms, you
could get someone else to” piss right off you know I’m, no
Skunk
laughs.
cog:
no way, you know they’re sort of going “Oh yeah yeah they’ll probably even pay
the majorit- the majority of it”, and ehm
Skunk:
Was this when you were in sales?
cog:
Yeah.
Skunk:
Right.
cog:
And they said “Oh you know if you got someone in that would cover like most”
but I said “Nah sod that” and they couldn’t understand it because I never used
to, my friends used to come around sort of like once a week or that
Skunk:
Uh-huh.
cog:
but other than that I didn’t have like people popping in or...
Skunk:
But it’s like that out in in, where I’m staying now, I mean he’s hardly there
so I’ve got the run of the house and I spend most of my time in my bedroom
anyway and people, I think people find that strange when they, whenever I have
visitors and they sort of say “Let’s sit in the lounge” and I say “No”, you
know I’m just not or I’m looking out for my landlord thinking right we’ve got
to go upstairs now he’s back home you know, “Why can’t we sit” “No no, don’t
want to have a conversation with him.”
Laughter.
Skunk:
But that’s it I mean I’ve always I’ve always been like that, I’ve always,
people come to visit, it’s always sitting in the bedroom having a chat, without
having, you know, tv or
cog:
Yeah, I don’t...
