THIS NORTHERN SOUL ;
TIME WILL PASS YOU BY

BY : LDMan ©

CHAPTER 3 Lost Summer Love

(backing track: Lorraine Silver – Lost Summer Love)

Early 70’s CHALET PARK (late Summer/Autumn) The same group of teenage lads sit around the swimming pool, hands in pockets, legs outstretched, fairly quiet. Denim jackets / Harringtons buttoned up and collars turned up against the cold. The late summer/autumn winds blow a pattern across the murky water and some glum faces reflect on their conquests (or not, as the case might be). ADY Anyone keep a count this year? TEZ (with a broadening grin across his face) Not me mate, I was much too busy ADY No wonder with all those visits to the clap clinic TEZ (swinging at ADY in a rough but playful sort of a way) Cheeky little tw@t DAVE It seemed like a quiet one to me ADY Y’ mean no mums on the look out for a ‘Baby Love’ DAVE No, actually; too many bloody husbands and not enough cash to keep them in the ruddy pub F@ckin decimilization (spitting on the ground in disgust) TEZ It’s never bothered you before DAVEY boy Remember when you got a chase out of the ‘van window and had to leg it without your pants DAVE That bloody well cost me y’ know Me best Tonic’s Cost me a bloody fortune Ruined the suit ADY I always wondered what happened to them D’ya reckon they got shredded Or burned Or maybe he kept them and wore them himself to look cool as you DAVE (pause) D’ya fancy selling me the jacket Dave, cheep mind you DAVE Bog off Do you realize how many tins I had to stack to buy that suit? The dozy old barstud MIKEY That blonde girl from Norwich was quite fit ADE At least it kept you fit, running from her dad (laughter from the group) Was he just nuts or was he permanently pissed ADY Dunno mate (miming a ducking, diving & swerving routine) I never really waited around to find out And I certainly couldn’t understand a ruddy word he said Could’ve done with your help there DAVEY boy DAVE What d’ya mean? I don’t speak Norr foke loik ‘em duz ADY No; but he left the old girl in charge when he went down the club house She was quite fit y’ know DAVE Yeh! I noticed …quite fancied a bit of that ADY You cloud have kept her busy whilst me and ‘manda got it together DAVE ‘ bit bloody late now ADY There’s always next year mate. She’s deffo comin’ back She even asked me to go down there to see her TEZ Well why don’t you ADY What in?; Apollo flamin’ thirteen? TEZ Why don’t you ask PHIL if you can borrow his GP ADY Not sure about that, he’s only just got it And I haven’t even got a licence Never mind insurance TEZ You don’t need ‘em ADY Don’t they have them in England? TEZ Of course they do you pillock but PHIL’s got all that stuff You ARE brothers, you look alike apart from the hair colour and beard, no one would ever know ADY Yeh! ‘ suppose so D’ya reckon he would? TEZ If you don’t ask, you’ll never know And he has spent most of the summer in Manchester Chasing his favourite bit of fluff He must be shagged out by now ADY Yeh but there’s another problem He’s hardly ever here TEZ He told me she was off to Spain with the family soon And he’s starting at that electronics place in Rhos You’ve gotta be in with a chance ADY D’ya fancy having a word with him See what he thinks TEZ Yeh, no problem, but I’d think of asking myself if I was you ADY Mmm! S’pose so (pause for thought) Anyone know the way to Norfolk? MIKEY Oh sh!t, hide the map, he’s gonna do it ADY (shrugging his shoulders and thinking hard) I’ve only ever been as far as Chester tho’ …and that was the Sunday school trip, when I was seven, with my mum and dad DAVE …and you got flamin’ lost there according to PHIL (laughter from the lads) ADY Not all my fault ya barstewards I got hold of the right coloured frock Just that the wrong person was inside it (PHIL turns up on his ‘new’ Lambretta, completey out of the blue. All the lads circle him to ogle at his gleaming ‘new’ machine) PHIL All right lads What’s going on Any talent in this week TEZ Don’t be bleedin’ greedy. Summer’s over and done with Anyway your ADY’s got something to ask you (pushing ADY in front) PHIL (headlocking ADY and knuckling his skull) What’s up little bro’ ADY ‘you in a good mood? PHIL Always ADY Y’know you’ve spent most of the summer in Manc. Land And we’ve seen nearly nothin’ of you And you must be saddle sore and all that PHIL Get on with it I'm getting bored allready ADY Can I borrow your scoot to go to see ‘manda in Norwich PHIL Yeh! Course you can (PAUSE, shocked and stunned silence from all, especially ADY who’s jaw almost drops to the floor) WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER (everyone creases up in laughter, TEZ even falls off his seat and pisses himself on the floor) ADY Told you he flamin’ wouldn’t But no one was listening, due largely to the laughter and merriment that took over after PHIL’s dream shattering slap in the chops. ADY storms off un-noticed by the crowd, cursing and gesturing on his way. A couple of other scooters appear on the scene and the lads jostle for position as they take turns in scavenging pillion rides around the cul-de-sac. Camera pans out as the scooters circle and the immobile group change places, pushing and shoving to the front in the hope of getting a ride on one of these ‘dream machines’.

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