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park up to the walled
garden,” Micky explained as he too tucked into his
lunch.
    “ Why are you sweeping up the drive? There’s a road sweeper
coming in tomorrow to do that,” Charlie shook his head at the
stupidity as he thought of
half a dozen other things that still needed doing around the
park.
    “ Just doing
as the gaffer told us,” Micky shrugged his shoulders, unbothered by
the pointlessness of the task he had been asked to do.
    “ Who? The new
rides manager?” Charlie pulled his eyebrows down as he answered his
own question with the other.
    “ Yeah,” Micky
said between mouthfuls.
    “ By the way
you never told us your girlfriend was having a baby,” Chippy said
after a moment.
    “ Well she’s
not due till August so I never thought, still letting it sink in,”
he told the carpenter.
    “ How lo ng since you
found out?” Charlie spooned another helping of spaghetti up to his
mouth slurping as some tried to escape being
eaten.
    “ Just a couple
of weeks,” Micky answered after he swallowed.
    “ And it’s
still not sunk in yet,” Chippy joked.
    “ And it won’t
till it arrives then you’ll know all about it,” Charlie stated,
knowing to well what it was like.
    “ Yeah, maybe,” Micky to ok a sip from his cup but found the liquid still to hot to
take more than that.
    “ Just wait
till you’ve got a really stinking nappy to change,” Charlie screwed
up his face at the memory.
    “ I’ll not be
changing the nappies, no way, that’s her job,” Micky gave a short
incredulous chuckle.
    “ Just you
wait,” Chippy nodded consciously, “before you know it you find
you’ve no choice.”
    “ I’m telling
you there’s no chance you’ll get me near a shitty nappy,” Micky was
defiant.
    “ Okay, say
the girlfriends not in, what you going to do then?” Charlie began,
“you can’t just leave the baby in a nappy filled with crap, can
you?”
    “ Well, she can
stay in till it’s out of them,” Micky sounded cocky.
    “ You just
wait, you don’t know what’s hit you yet,” Charlie laughed with
Chippy joining him.
    Andy sat
quietly eating , listening
intently to the conversation leaning back in his chair.
    “ Andy was
wondering when the new ride was going to be open by the way,” Micky
change the topic.
    “ Oh, that
won’t be till May at least,” Charlie slurped up another mouthful of
his meal, cutting a corner of toast with his spoon then shovelled
that into his mouth too.
    “ What’s it
going to be called?” Andy piped up.
    The head of
maintenance took a moment to answer as chewed noisily trying to
remember what the management had decided to call the Troika, as the
ride was originally known. “The Cradle Of Fear,” he finally said
dismissively as he cut another piece of toast.
    Micky and Andy
sat eating in silence as the rest of the group talked amongst
themselves about the Troika as well as other rides in the park before turning to the big
match on Saturday.
    “ Well I ’ll be watching
Celtic kick Rangers’ arses.”
    “ You mean
Rangers knock six past your lot.”
    “ You
think.”
    “ I don’t think
I know mate.”
    “ Look at it
this way, the way Rangers has been playing this season they’ll be
lucky if they can even get a touch of the ball.”
    “ At home to
you lot and you really think you stand a chance against
us.”
    “ More than a
chance it will be a walk over more like.”
    “ Ha
ha-ha.”
    “ Glad you lot
find it funny but you know what they say he who laughs last and all
that.”
    “ Yeah, I know
that one does it not go something like; he who laughs last doesn’t
laugh at all.” This brought hoots of glee for the Rangers fans and
jeers from those who supported Celtic as the one or two that didn’t
follow football shook their heads in amusement.
    “ Right you lot
enough of talking shit ‘cause you know it makes no difference who
wins with you’s as in the end Killie will beat the both of you
blind folded,” the ever diehard Kilmarnock fan Charlie