Blackpool, again
Sorry for posting about this north western hole again, but....

Took a day trip up there almost 15 years ago. 2 cars zipped up the M6. It was March or April, so still cold and grey.

A lovely day was had by all, until we got out of the cars.

I had an argument on the pier with an inbred who couldn't understand that I wanted a plain sandwich, ie no salad or mayo. Simple enough but after 4 attempts (yes, 4!) I got my money back. I was just so exasperated by his lack of intelligence- chicken, bread and butter, that's all, what's so difficult?

It was cold and windy so we were all a bit grumpy, a few tense moments all day. At one point I got so pissed off with my then girlfriend I bought a set of handcuffs from one of the classy vending machines, cuffed her to a railing and walked off. Funny now I look back but at the time I was sooooo tempted to leave her there.

We got back to the cars at the end of the day. One car wouldn't start so we pleaded poverty with a passing AA man who took pity on us and gave us a battery boost.

The other car had been broken into. Utterly trashed- stereo gone, steering column mashed to try to hotwire it, everything smashed on the dashboard. Couldn't be driven of course, so everyone but 2 piled into the other (now started but still a bit dodgy) car to drive back down to the Midlands. 2 hours or so squashed in a Montego is not fun. Everyone got dropped off then 2 others drove back to Blackpool with a trailer to collect the smashed up car.

To top off this special and memorable day, my then girlfriend decided to inform me that she was pregnant. We hadn't been together long, we were both young. Bit of a shocker. Sat there in silence all the way home.

Only bright point of this? My girl, love her to bits, she's almost 14 now.

Haven't been back to Blackpool since. Never intend going back.
(randomstupidname would really like this signature field to be bigge, Sun 1 Nov 2009, 15:10, 1 reply)

Seafront Blackpool -v- the rest of the town.
The thing about that Blackpool is that it may be a (golden) mile long, but it's only about 300m thick. Go further back from the beach, and it's a totally different place. Quite nice, almost.

The seafront exists to exploit the chav scum from Manc/Liverpool/B'ham. And the pensioner bus-tour market. If you go to that bit of it, you deserve what you get from it.
(MartinB9999, Mon 2 Nov 2009, 12:12, closed)