Anyone remember Nutty Neil?
Yet more nutter anecdotes from my mother (does she attract them or what?) Apparently, anyone who lived in Basildon during the late 70's/early 80's will remember Nutty Neil - late twenties, Mummys boy side-parted haystack hair and shiny brown charity shop suit (the trousers of which were three inches shorter than his legs) he used to spend most of his life in the shopping centre, having abuse hurled at him by young and old alike - you usually knew he was coming as the sound of teenage boys shouting "NEEEEEIIIILLL" in the gommiest voices they could manage used to precede him wherever he went. Also a similarly sartorially challenged bloke who worked in one of the shops, eventually (and somewhat surprisingly) got married to a similarly simple soul, and after a while they were seen out and about with a pram (the mind boggled at the thought of the conception, but.....)A woman who worked with my Mum, lived near the "happy-but-witless-couple" at the time, and one day when the wife went into the shop where they worked, her curiosity got the better of her and she went over for a look at the baby.....to be met by a row of glassy eyed stares from all the little teddies and cuddly toys that were in there - not FOR the baby, you understand.....INSTEAD OF!!!!
(underachiever, Fri 17 Sep 2004, 23:17, Reply)