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a drink with Shane Macgowan
- ... Anyway, it was a twelve-hour job. Eight in the morning, get in, bottle up, do a lot of set-up work, pushing barrels.
- Pushing barrels?
- Yeah. And putting all the empties away in the right boxes, things like that. Really boring work that was. And dirty. It was a nice pub to work in, but you got dirty, so then you had to clean up and go upstairs and serve. And your day wouldn't be over until twelve o'clock.
- That's an awfully long day.
- You had a break between half-three - no, four o'clock - cause it would take you half an hour to clear up; so, between four o'clock and half five. So I used to dash home and drink a bottle of vodka.
- Drink a bottle of vodka?!?!
- Yeah, or just under a bottle of vodka.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, and I would come back and I'd be dropping glasses all over the place.
- How did you keep the job?
- I could handle a bottle of vodka. I could handle it... I could work on a bottle of vodka.
- Could you?
- Yeah.
- But you'd drop glasses.
- Well, when I first got back I'd be so pissed that I droppen a few glasses, but I'd soon get in the swing of it.
- And did nobody notice?
- Nah.
- Nobody noticed you had drunk a bottle of vodka?
- No.
- How come?
- Because it's not a lot to me, a bottle of vodka, you know. You know it isn't.
- Yeah, but you were only eighteen and you drank a bottle of vodka in your lunch break?
- Yeah. An hour and a half is plenty of time.
- What, you would just go home and sit and drink a bottle of vodka?
- And watch the telly....
- ... Anyway, it was a twelve-hour job. Eight in the morning, get in, bottle up, do a lot of set-up work, pushing barrels.
- Pushing barrels?
- Yeah. And putting all the empties away in the right boxes, things like that. Really boring work that was. And dirty. It was a nice pub to work in, but you got dirty, so then you had to clean up and go upstairs and serve. And your day wouldn't be over until twelve o'clock.
- That's an awfully long day.
- You had a break between half-three - no, four o'clock - cause it would take you half an hour to clear up; so, between four o'clock and half five. So I used to dash home and drink a bottle of vodka.
- Drink a bottle of vodka?!?!
- Yeah, or just under a bottle of vodka.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, and I would come back and I'd be dropping glasses all over the place.
- How did you keep the job?
- I could handle a bottle of vodka. I could handle it... I could work on a bottle of vodka.
- Could you?
- Yeah.
- But you'd drop glasses.
- Well, when I first got back I'd be so pissed that I droppen a few glasses, but I'd soon get in the swing of it.
- And did nobody notice?
- Nah.
- Nobody noticed you had drunk a bottle of vodka?
- No.
- How come?
- Because it's not a lot to me, a bottle of vodka, you know. You know it isn't.
- Yeah, but you were only eighteen and you drank a bottle of vodka in your lunch break?
- Yeah. An hour and a half is plenty of time.
- What, you would just go home and sit and drink a bottle of vodka?
- And watch the telly....
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