Old Sneezes

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Earwigged(ish) gems #7

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

In the shop Me wallet’s as empty as me grandfather’s grave. Good fek! Don’t say grave robbers! No. He’s not dead. In a neighbour’s kitchen I wrote on it with an indisputable marker by accident. You mean indelible marker. Yeah. But if you can’t rub it out it’s indisputable too. Right? When the starter at [...]

Ultan Bator and St. Hallmark’s Day

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Ultan, or Ultan Bator as he’s known, rambled in and flopped down on the stool next me. I’m in the wars, Sneezy. Or at least I will be. I completely forgot it was St. Hallmark’s day today. The shop’s sold out and herself’ll be getting off work any minute now. She’ll have a face on [...]

Special Forces Feline

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

I had been on a drug bust the night before so I wasn’t in the humour for more excitement.* The neighbour dropped in. Are you going to the village at any stage today? I need a bag of coal. I’ll come with you to help lift it. Right so. Hop in there. I need a [...]

Sally, the esoteric vegetablarian

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

Look, I have to go. There’s someone at the door … huh? … no, don’t worry. I’m sure it’s perfectly fine to have sex before the first date. Here, I’ll call you in a day or two. I dropped the phone and let Sally in. Not that I wanted to. Sally wrecks my head. One [...]

A cute hoor?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

You can never be sure whether Eugene Duggan is extremely intelligent and witty, or just plain dumb. He claims to have been top of his class at school, but with few of his advanced years still with us and none that attended that particular school, he may be referring to seating arrangements. He went to [...]

A shite post

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I met Batt Mahon (you can guess his nickname) while getting the Sunday papers. Jayzez, Batt, that dog of yours strolled across the road in front of me and I coming up the village just now. I was taking it handy, but yer man coming the other way nearly clipped him. And you, ya hoor, [...]

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