I hate the met. Everyone who gets it hates it. It’s expensive, 100 quid fine if you get caught jumping it and when you try and buy a ticket from the dude at Alty station he refuses your card forcing you to call him a cunt shocking the old woman behind you. Not my finest hour.
As all good citizens of Altrincham I share in my hatred for the daily grind on the worst of public transport. Even the new yellow ones are a shit colour and fully snide. Should have made them red. Anyway all who get on before the likes of Stretford and Old Trafford shudder when the groaning beast pulls into the likes of these stops. Cos we all know what’s coming. Dicks in tracky bottoms and wong-eds, clutching phones playing the tinniest of music out of shit speakers.
It was at one of these moments on my way back from Uni the other day that a thought that’s often troubled me firmly housed itself in my mind again. Why do scallies have to latch onto something and do it to death, ruining it for the rest of us? Two biggest examples, adidas and Lacoste. Ruined by scallies insistence of covering themselves from head to toe in snide stripey Lacoste or adidas trackies.
Now these used to be favourite makes for me, but now it’s difficult to rock them in a lot of places for fear of being tarnished with the mark of the scal. The brands themselves also have a lot to answer for. They know the scally market is awash with cash and so they dive head on into it. Bringing out new stripey lines, tracky bottoms that fit perfectly into your sock, shit like that. Now I know that some adidas originals stuff is heavy, but when your bowling through Manchester on a night out in your new three stripe jacket, you’re gonna have a much harder time with bouncers than if you were rocking a river island beaut. Might be alright for me now I’m fully fro’d up but in the golden days of the zero all over it was tough times. All cos of scallies.
On the met the other day I noticed that two of the wannabe hoods had converse on their feet. Full on stripey converse!! Chuck Taylor firing out the red and blue scally line. There is no doubting the resurgence of these classic trainers in recent years, but surely this is a step too far. JD’s gonna full of them. No more simple plain classic colours or even the random Japanese limited editions, just full on scally style.
How long will it be before this last bastion of classic style is taken away from us once and for all by the strongest of forces? Not long in my mind. These are troubling times we live in.
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