February 24, 2004

Sally

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One thing I think the Young Adam movie does bet­ter than the book is cap­ture exactly how utterly grim Scot­land was in the 1950’s.
Edin­burgh cer­tainly see­med a lot more grey when I was a kid than it does now. Not that I cared. I was too busy trying to get­ting laid.
Back when we were 18 – 19, Dave (the Young Adam direc­tor) and I used to go out a lot and try to meet girls. There was this one girl called Sally, who was a real firec­rac­ker. Sally was pretty cool by tee­na­ger stan­dards. Badass-attitude girl, really pretty, but really sweet. Dave had this big, big crush on her. Sally would roll her eye­balls every time Dave came into the room. Dave was just too geeky for ol’ Sally.
I saw Sally the last time I was in Edin­burgh. She works in a res­tau­rant owned by a guy I went to school with.
We chat­ted for a few minu­tes. She’s doing OK. I told her about Dave and his uber-cool film gig. Yep, she rolled her eye­balls again. Heh.

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One Response to “Sally”

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