Sally

Decided best not go in to work today.......... Sally is going in for an operation and I am sort of struggling with the whole thing.  We have been friends for what seems like forever I was 21 when we first met so actually 14 years but still seems like she has always been in my life.  The first time I met her was when she drove me and another friend to Knebworth.  Truth be told initially she scared the hell out of me, she was so loud and brash........ and I was always a pretty solitary kind of person.

For some unknown reason which I still haven't grasped to this day it was decided, not by me, that we should all be presentable for said festival....... and as I had already been to Reading I was in fact struggling with this concept of cleanliness but hey who am I to argue and as I said before I was pretty wary of her.  Sally had the keys to the hairdressers where she worked so we let ourselves in and I sat down in the chair to have my hair washed, as instructed.

Now this overall experience was pretty odd as I don't generally go to the hairdressers as a rule, if anything I try to avoid them.  I know you probably find it hard to believe but firstly I cannot bear chit chatting to randoms and secondly the sensation of water running past my ears sends shivers down my spine, yes good shivers the sort of shivers we like although I generally find that sort of thing doesn't bode well when Marjorie wants to know what I had for tea last night........ so for this reason I stay away. 

Sally got started with the water and I tried to remain calm which didn't work for very long and I began to wriggle and writhe in the chair as it was driving me insane.  Anyway she quickly lost patience and smacked me around the head telling me to stop being a ..... (its not a word I can actually use!)  That is how our friendship began and to this day it makes me smile.

So the trip was long I just sat in the back listening to the selection of songs they were churning out The Bluetones, obviously Oasis (would have been rude not to!) and we ended up with Josh Winks on repeat.......   Along the motorway we spotted a group of lads obviously heading in the same direction as our good selves so we decided to hold up placards at the window telling them to stop at the next services.  This seemed like a great idea at the time, especially when Sally piped up "what happens in Knebworth stays in Knebworth", I had never heard anyone say anything quite like that before (which now leads me to believe I must have led a pretty sheltered life) and I actually started to feel quite excited about what I'd let myself in for!  So we stopped at the services
but when they actually pulled up next to us no one knew what to do so we all just sat in our own cars looking pretty embarrassed through the windows at each other.  It was the most random thing ever, in the end we thought it best to crack on with the journey and just drove off!.........

There was a diversion which took us all the way around Knebworth and back out onto the motorway we actually did this about five or six times before we realised that we had been driving around in circles for an hour! I say we I mean Sally as I was just sat in the back of the car chain smoking, listening to music and still trying to work out what the hell had just happened back at the service station!  A police officer told us to park up and camp anywhere as there was far too much going on for them to worry about a few girls trespassing so we found a field and pitched our tent. 

Just as we were cracking open the Gin some lads walked over they were pretty chatty and all g'd up for the gig, one of the lads was sexy as you like, surrounded by an air of mystery and didn't say a word.  He was doing a 'Liam', back when Liam was considered to be the next best thing and not just some annoying middle aged man with a penchant for swearing!  So the battle of the fittest was on, all three of us transfixed we couldn't take our eyes off him.  His friend was chatting away chatting about stuff, stuff which had no importance or bearing on any of our lives we all just nodded our heads politely whenever he paused for breath.  We didn't want to break our gaze, the first to look away had already lost....... and then he opened his mouth!  Now what he didn't say was "I likes to drive my traaaackeeeeeer! but that was what I heard and so we turned over and zipped up the tent midway through his friends nonsense about something and went to sleep.