The Otto Bin Empire (2015)
“The site had always been referred to among the locals as simply ‘The Corner’, although it wasn’t really a corner at all, just a dozen or so big plastic rubbish bins, the collective property of the old suburb’s tiny and impoverished terrace houses that sat under the flyover down near the docks. But one day when Clive, who’d only recently joined the eclectic group that gathered there, had inquired why they’d chosen this particular spot, Madge had waved a hand about airily, referring to the manufa...cturer of the wheelie bins.
‘No reason at all,’ she’d said. ‘This is just one place among hundreds in the Otto Bin Empire.’ Then she’d dragged heavily on her roll-your-own and given one of her chesty chortles, and Clive had laughed along with her. The fact that he’d ‘got the joke’ had forged an instant bond between the two for Madge was proud of her wit, and justifiably so – she was a clever woman.
The term had been steadily passed along the grapevine of the inner-city homeless after that.MoreLess
‘No reason at all,’ she’d said. ‘This is just one place among hundreds in the Otto Bin Empire.’ Then she’d dragged heavily on her roll-your-own and given one of her chesty chortles, and Clive had laughed along with her. The fact that he’d ‘got the joke’ had forged an instant bond between the two for Madge was proud of her wit, and justifiably so – she was a clever woman.
The term had been steadily passed along the grapevine of the inner-city homeless after that.MoreLess
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