hardtimes for Hardware

 It’s Saturday afternoon. Two o’clock to be exact and I have just pulled up at Skinny Boys house. I appears that all though Skinny Boy is up and has been for almost five hours Bertie is still at home in bed. After a phone call he says he will be round in about half an hour. This gives me a chance to talk to Skinny Boy one to one. I ask about the music and its origin.

‘Well it started with a programme we got with the keyboard we bought. As it happens I think that is the only piece of hardware we have. You know when we first bought it we paid for next day delivery and it never showed. We waited a few days before calling to find out what had happened, it turned out Bertie had told them one address and they had wrote down the wrong one, so he says anyway, he always panics on the phone. He sits there with all his stuff organized in front of him but rest assured he forgets something then all goes to pot when he sits back down’. Skinny Boy looks quite animated at this point. ‘So anyway it was delivered a few doors down from where he lived. The useless bastard has only lived in the same house all his life and doesn’t know his own bloody address. That’s not all; we went down to get it, and the house it was delivered to have sent it back to the post office. So we had to find the sorting office, by the way they, the house we were at, they lent us an A to Z. so we finally found it and brought back to Bertie’s. That’s the keyboard not the A to Z. I think Bertie took it back. Well he told me he did’. Skinny Boy picks up his cigarettes and goes to a nearby draw to find, I can only assume a cigarette lighter. As he opens the draw his eyes widen, followed by the abrupt slamming of the draw, a red face and a not too obvious attempt to see if I had noticed his actions. I have to find out what is in that draw.