I've got a wee story about The Lone Ranger. One day, when I was still too young to read the time, I had to go for a haircut on the way home from school. Mr Bowman was the slowest barber in the world, not just Lochgelly, and I kept asking him the time because I didn't want to miss my favourite television programme. He repeatedly told me that there was plenty time and when I eventually got my haircut I said to him "If I've missed The Lone Ranger I'm no' comin' back here." Needless to say I had missed it, by over an hour and I never went back there to get my hair cut. Until about 20 years later, that is, my ship was in Rosyth after spending over a month at sea during the Cod War. I was allowed home on weekend leave but told by the Master-At-Arms that I must have a haircut before I returned. Bowman's was the only barbers open in Lochgelly the day before I was to return back on board HMS Galatea and I had little choice but to give him my custom. When I sat in the chair auld Bowman got started and smirked as he remarked "Aye, ye' came back efter a' Jim."
He remembered what you said after all that time!! You had to eat crow and bear it. Very funny. Scots have long memories, eh?
ReplyDeleteEveryday when I was at primary school I would pass Mr Bowman as I walked to school and he was walking in the other direction to his shop. I would politely wish him a good morning and he would often ask me if I was happy with my haircut at the other barber.
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