On the Floor (2012)
“Because, wouldn’t you just know it, on top of everything else we’ve hit the school run as well as the rain. The A4 corridor is jammed with eastbound traffic so from Heathrow to the City could take the whole fucking morning. ‘Could be it eases up after the Hammersmith flyover,’ he shakes his head at the world conspiring against us and sinks down behind the wheel, abandons all talk.
An unscheduled stop in Bahrain to fix an unspecified technical problem had us sitting on the tarmac for three h...ours staring into a desert night, a stone’s throw from the theatre of war and exactly where no one wanted to be. A million troops just down the road while Saddam and his boys larged it up in Kuwait, checking their watches.
We all know he’s not about to make a graceful exit; volte face is clearly not the guy’s style. You don’t grow that kind of ’tache and commission giant statues of yourself only to back down in front of the whole world.MoreLess
An unscheduled stop in Bahrain to fix an unspecified technical problem had us sitting on the tarmac for three h...ours staring into a desert night, a stone’s throw from the theatre of war and exactly where no one wanted to be. A million troops just down the road while Saddam and his boys larged it up in Kuwait, checking their watches.
We all know he’s not about to make a graceful exit; volte face is clearly not the guy’s style. You don’t grow that kind of ’tache and commission giant statues of yourself only to back down in front of the whole world.MoreLess
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