The Likes of Us (2013)
“He couldn’t remember just what began the row itself, but something like it seemed to blow up every time the Old Man saw him, and started using expressions like ‘idle layabout’, ‘lazy good-for-nothing’ and ‘no-good little teddy boy’. The Old Man never talked to you – he talked at you: he didn’t carry on a conversation – he told you things. When Vince stormed out of the house he hardly knew where he was going he was so full of bottled-up fury. Violence writhed in him like a trapped and vicious snake. He felt like kicking in the teeth of the first person who might glance twice at him and he thought that perhaps the easiest way of relieving his feeling would be to find the boys and go smash up a few chairs at the Youth Club. Except that that might bring a copper to the door and he got on the wrong side of the Old Man easily enough without having the police to help along.
He had no trouble in finding the gang: they were obstructing the pavement at the end of Chapel Street, making the o...ccasional passer-by get off into the road.MoreLess
He had no trouble in finding the gang: they were obstructing the pavement at the end of Chapel Street, making the o...ccasional passer-by get off into the road.MoreLess
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