Paying for It

Authors: Tony Black

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“They’d just about wiped out the Aussies in the bars, and now they staked a claim on the cafés.‘Hold up,’ I cut in, ‘just make it black and strong.’‘An Americano?’Was I hearing things? This was Leith. Last bastion of old Edinburgh. There wasn’t a Continental-style piazza for at least 500 yards. The yuppies had redrawn the battle lines.I waved the waiter off with the back of my hand, said, ‘Whatever.’He eyeballed me as he went, probably to add some of his home-made gravy to my coffee.In five minu...tes he came back, handed me a receipt on a little saucer, two white mints on top, ‘That will be two fifty, please.’For that kind of poppy, I expected the best coffee of my life. Truth told, it sucked balls into a hernia. I loaded in the milk and sugar, tried to focus on why I was still sat here.For a while now, I’d been rolling around a quote from Bowie: ‘It’s not really work, it’s just the power to charm.’Sound advice. If I was going to get anything from Fitz – anything other than an introduction to Mr Nightstick – I’d have to suck shit.MoreLess Read More Read Less