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Sit down.
Thank you.
Just a minute.
Sit down? I haven't had a good sit down...
I haven,t had a proper sit down... well, I could't tell you...
Here you are.
Ten minutes off for tea-break in the middle of the night in that place and I couldn't find a seat, not one.
All them Greeks had it, Poles, Greeks, Blacks, the lot of them, all them aliens had it.
And they had me working there... they had me working!
All them Blacks had it, Blacks, Greeks, Poles, the lot of them, that's what, doing me out of a seat, treating me like dirt.
When he came at me tonight I told him.
Take a seat.
Yes, but what I got to do first, you see, what I got to do, I got to loosen myself up, you see what I mean?
I could have got done in down there.
[Davies punches downward with closed fist.]
You want to roll yourself one of these?
What? No, no, I never smoke a cigarette.
I'll tell you what, though. I'll have a bit of that tobacco there for my pipe, if you like.
Yes. Go on. Take some out of that.
That's kind of you, mister. Just enough to fill my pipe, that's all.
I had a tin, only ... only a while ago. But it was knocked off. It was knocked off on the Great West Road.
Where shall I put it?
I'll take it.
When he come at me tonight I told him. Didn't I? You heard me tell him, didn't you?
I saw him have a go at you.
Go at me? You wouldn't grumble.
The filthy skate, an old man like me, I've had dinner with the best.
Yes, I saw him have a go at you.
All them toe-rags, mate, got the manners of pigs. I might have been on the road a few years but you can take it from me I'm clean.
I keep myself up. That's why I left my wife.
Fortnight after I married her, no, not so much as that, no more than a week, I took the lid off a saucepan, you know what was in it?
A pile of her underclothing, unwashed. The pan for vegetables, it was.
I've eaten my dinner off the best of plates. But I'm not young any more.
I remember the days I was as handy as any of them. They didn't take any liberties with me.
But I haven't been so well lately. I've had a few attacks.
Did you see what happened with that one?
I only got the end of it.
Comes up to me, parks a bucket of rubbish at me tells me to take it out the back. It's not my job to take out the bucket!
They got a boy there for taking out the bucket. I wasn't engaged to take out buckets.
My job's cleaning the floor, clearing up the tables, doing a bit of washing-up, nothing to do with taking out buckets!
Uh.
Yes, well say I had! Even if I had!
to recap I was engaged to take up
its my jobs cleaning the floor clearing up the tables to you been washing up
nothing to do with a gap okay
that her
sad even if even if I was supposed to take out my pocket
whose ish get to come up give me or just we got the same span need not be bossed
knowledge superior Germany what was he a Greek
know him he was a Scottish it was rushed gosh
you're going on in addition
yes are turning more to do with his bucket
you the key russian I'm an old man I said
when I was brought up we have some idea how to talk to all people with proper
respect was brought up with the right ideas I had a few years of New York
branch you
of was up to the government and the bullet
making too much commotion missus commotion
may who he russian term I got my rights are children that
I might have been on a roll but nobody's got more rights than I have
there's never been a fair Prasad anyway gave Adam
pulling shorter price
if you haven't
mom stop Bhaskar get happy inside the hospital
and cry my head on the pavement if you didn't
pocket I'm not I'll get em
when I'm on my shop Tyreke no I wouldn't mind so much trouble at all my
I wouldn't mind so much but I left all my belongings in that place, in the back room there.
All of them, the lot there was, you see, in this bag. Every lousy blasted bit of all my bleeding belongings I left down there now.
In the rush of it. I bet he's having a poke around in it now this very moment.
I'll pop down sometime and pick them up for you.
Anyway, I'm obliged to you, letting me ...