Phil Lawton
Oct-17-02, 10:00 AM
Ever started a conversation that you wish, with every fibre of your being, that you hadn't?
I was trawling for CDs on Tuesday and dropped into a shop in Birmingham called "Swordfish". Great place, small, dark and poky and the staff there really know their shit.
Anyhow, I was scooting thru the second-hand section when I heard a familiar tune start. Then this God-awful rendition of "Song To The Siren" warbled out of the store's hi-fi. Now, I KNEW that Robert Plant had done a version of this song - my own common sense should have told me to figure that it was he. Here's the conversation which followed me not keeping my mouth shut:
Me: "Who's murdering this?
Swordfish Employee: "Robert Plant"
Me: "Christ, this is bad...Buckley will be turning in his grave..."
SE: "Yeah..."
Me: "And Liz Fraser, come to that."
SE: "Yeah? Is she dead then?"
Me: "No, I..."
2nd SE: "Who's dead?"
1st SE: "Liz Fraser."
Me: "No, what I meant was..."
2nd SE: "When was this?"
Me: "Never...well, not 'never', we all have to go sometime..."
2nd SE: "Yeah, but she wasn't all that old, surely?"
Me: "She's not dead."
1st SE: "You just said she was."
Me: "It was a turn of phrase."
1st SE: "Oh, sorry...I though you said she'd be turning in her grave."
Me: "I did."
2nd SE: "She is dead then?"
Me: "Yeah...can I have this Roy Harper CD?"
Madre Mia.
I was trawling for CDs on Tuesday and dropped into a shop in Birmingham called "Swordfish". Great place, small, dark and poky and the staff there really know their shit.
Anyhow, I was scooting thru the second-hand section when I heard a familiar tune start. Then this God-awful rendition of "Song To The Siren" warbled out of the store's hi-fi. Now, I KNEW that Robert Plant had done a version of this song - my own common sense should have told me to figure that it was he. Here's the conversation which followed me not keeping my mouth shut:
Me: "Who's murdering this?
Swordfish Employee: "Robert Plant"
Me: "Christ, this is bad...Buckley will be turning in his grave..."
SE: "Yeah..."
Me: "And Liz Fraser, come to that."
SE: "Yeah? Is she dead then?"
Me: "No, I..."
2nd SE: "Who's dead?"
1st SE: "Liz Fraser."
Me: "No, what I meant was..."
2nd SE: "When was this?"
Me: "Never...well, not 'never', we all have to go sometime..."
2nd SE: "Yeah, but she wasn't all that old, surely?"
Me: "She's not dead."
1st SE: "You just said she was."
Me: "It was a turn of phrase."
1st SE: "Oh, sorry...I though you said she'd be turning in her grave."
Me: "I did."
2nd SE: "She is dead then?"
Me: "Yeah...can I have this Roy Harper CD?"
Madre Mia.