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On the way there Bradby told me about what’d happened the night before. He hadn’t got arrested exactly, although he had got taken away in a police car. When I asked him he was like, “Nah, they just had a word,” but admitted that he was, “Shitting myself,” at first. But what’d actually ended up happening was that they just took him home.
It was interesting to hear Bradby talk about it though ‘cause he started telling me all about how they (there were two coppers) were, “Quite funny,” and even said that one of them was, “Cool,” saying about how he kept making sarcastic comments whenever he’d seen someone on the street, like slagging off all the piss heads and even the normal people as they drove past, which had been, “Funny to listen to.” (Bradby did retell a couple of the jokes he’d made but I can’t remember exactly; basically taking the Mickey out of people’s appearances and behaviours and that).
So in the end he’d just been taken home and when they got outside his house they told him all about how they were gonna take him in to have a word with his parents but it turned out they were just winding him up and trying to scare him and, “Make me sweat,” and in the end they just let him out.
I said to Bradby that I reckoned that if it had’ve been me it would’ve been different and he said, “Yeah, I guess I was pretty lucky,” and I said, “Luck doesn’t come into it,” and he was like, “What do you mean?” but I wasn’t sure exactly what I did mean then so I just left it and said, “Nothing,” and then after a short silence he came out with, “Yeah actually I was quite lucky ‘cause my parents were asleep and didn’t see the police car,” and I said, “Yeah, my mum would’ve probably got up to go to the loo at that exact moment or something,” and he laughed.
So anyway, we pulled in to the car park and as we walked towards the store I remember looking at my watch and seeing how late we were and saying, “Who’s in charge today?” and he smiled and said, “Me,” and even though at first I wasn’t sure how to take that there was something about his tone of voice and the fact that he said nothing afterwards that started to put me at ease. And then he said, “So it should be an easy day,” and it was like cool! |
Written by bluecity (432 comments posted) 15th August 2008 | Well, who's the lucky one? I think Chambers is, being late for the bus and getting a lift, then arriving late for work and finding that his lift is the boss.
Interesting perspective into how kids see the police here. It suits them to think that the police are against them and it's always a bit of a disappointment when they find out that the police are human too.
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