Record columnist Tam Cowan has a bust up with a mum and daughter at the Pavilion Theatre
I hate arguments, fights or any form of confrontation, especially in public. However, a bit like The Coward of the County in the great Kenny Rogers song, I had to make a stand last Saturday night at the Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow.
Yes, chinas, I could hardly hear a word thanks to a truly awful mother and daughter duo to our immediate left who accused me and the wean of sitting in their seats and proceeded to mutter to themselves until the lights came up at the interval. And that’s when the laughs continued for the audience members in our wee section of the stalls.
By the way, folks, I thought the fairer sex didn’t like the C-word? It’s just as well I’m not easily offended. Two minutes before curtain up, my wee lassie had a fly peek at the text message the mother was sending to her daughter and, yes, I had to laugh when Sophie spilled the beans. Top news stories today Thinking he was joking, I smiled and said: “I don’t have cash – is a card OK?” But he WASN’T joking… and I stood there like a diddy making a contactless transaction for 6p! But listen, if you think that’s a farce, it was reported last week that a petrol station in Cheshire is now charging motorists THREE QUID to put air in their tyres! That’s inflation for you…
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