So did we, like, walk past that when we went on that massive walk through the park? Or is that a completely different river?
Daniel:
When we went to try and find somewhere to smoke?
Ryan:
Yeah.
Daniel:
Yeah, I think we walked-- we walked down the stairs and it's on, like, the other side of the bridge from where we walked down, I think.
Ryan:
Oh right, okay.
Daniel:
Em yeah, I-- well it was like, I was like "oh, I'll go for that one" 'cause it had a good name and it was, like, £4.50 I think and then the guy said-- like, the guy-- I was talking to someone the guy was like "oh, you know, that's for-- d'you want-- it's £4.50 for a half pint, do you want a full pint?" and I was just like "yeah, whatever", like, I wasn't-- And then, like, as soon as I said it he started pouring it into a full pint, I was like "no, I must've misheard that, like, it can't-- it can't be £4.50 for a half pint." I only had a tenner on me 'cause we were only going for drinks so I was like-- He came back and he was like "oh, it's £9" and I was like-- trying to not act like I was so shocked by that, just trying to be like "oh."
Ryan:
It's like, it's that--
Daniel:
It wasn't even nice either, it was pure minging as well.
Ryan:
"Is that an issue?" Like "cool."
Daniel:
He turns away to open the till and you're like-- I could've got like three drinks for that, I could have got, like, nine litres of Frosty's man.
Ryan:
Could've bought three bottles of Frosty's mate.
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Douglas:
My father, eh, bet some of the local boys, oldies, that used to stand up at the-- the monument there with the police sergeant and, eh, he'd say "I'm going to get a salmon this afternoon." And they all took bets on whether my father-- when I say bets, a shilling or something, six pence or something like that. And he says "I'm going--" in his own way of talking "I'm a gonna get-- get a salmon" he says "this afternoon." "How you going to get a salmon?" "I shoot it." "Where?" He says "I'm going doon the nursery, I'll-- I'll get my salmon." So, by this time, half a dozen of them had gathered together up at the monument with the police sergeant, you see, but unknown to my father, they knew-- he knew that they were-- they were going to tell the police. But one of the boys was just a wee bit mare friendly wi my father than the rest of them and he kent my father would get into trouble. So we went and he says to [name] he went doon the-- the railway line, over the bridge, saw my father. He says "get that salmon oot of there." "Aye, I got a salmon" he says. He says "get it oot of there", he says "[name]'s up the street waiting on you coming up." "Who the hell telt him?" He says "ah", he says "never heed who telt him, get that salmon oot your bag." So he took the salmon oot of his bag and he put in three or four turnips oot the field, you see. So he's coming, walking up, on his own, coming up past the Buccleuch Hotel with the bag in the back and the shotgun folded over it. The police they were-- and a' the fellies stood in the-- in the end bit. Police sargeant comes round. "Right, I've got you this time." He says "I'll have that salmon." He says "and you're done." And my father says "what salmon?" He says "the yin in your bag" he says, "the yin you shot." "I shoot a nay salmon" he says, "I got turnips." He says "you've got a salmon in that bag." "I've got a turnips" and he turned it oot like this and three or four turnips rolled oot and well all the boys owed my father a tenner or something-- they laughed 'cause they a' thought he had come up wi a salmon and he hadnae a salmon at a', he had turnips.
