Curry’s come out of the Bobcat bucket, all over the rest. He had a reet soggy nan bread. He goes, ‘Fuck sake, you’re not driving again.’ Do they know know you ride bikes? Erm, sort of. They’ll ask what I’m doing on my day off and I’ll say I’m going out on my bike and they’ll go ‘In the woods?’ And I’ll go ‘Sort of.’ I’ve said to some, but I don’t think many of them would know what BMX is. That’s the thing though, you come back from work and you’re knackered, so you can’t be bollocked to ride. I’m still passionate about BMX, if I can’t ride, I’ll be searching for spots on Google Earth. I don’t keep up with current trends in riding, all the new lingo, it’s a nice social thing, to get out and ride with my mates. If it’s going to be nice I won’t put down for overtime. How much notice do you have to give? There’s a board in the office that you put your name down on, so I’ll go ‘I’ll come in on my day off, on Wednesday and do six till six.’ Like I said before, it’s easy to slip into doing loads of overtime because the money is good… It’d be interesting to be a fly on the wall there… I’m not exactly great at English, but I saw two blokes go up to the overtime board and go to put their over-
time down, stop and go ‘How do you spell twelve?’ And the other guy pauses, then goes ‘Just write the numbers down instead.’ There’s one bloke, he’s about 55 but looks 75. Honestly, he looks like Steptoe. He’s always doing stuff, dead fast too. We call him Superwellies. In knee high slop, just shoveling for hours, hosing stuff down in the freezing cold. He’s got two daughters, both pregnant, no jobs, and if he’s not working he’s just taxiing them around in his people carrier, to the shops, round mates. He doesn’t come to work for the money, he comes to get away from his family life. There’s a few like that, all they do is work. They just try and escape it all. Hopefully you won’t end up like that? Nah, I’m the opposite. The good thing about something like riding is that it broadens your horizons. Do they know you’ve traveled around the world? Some do, but sometimes I’ll mention I’ve been to Japan and they’ll go ‘Look at Phileas Fogg here?! Old Michael Palin here.’ You get a lot of holiday here, just because of all the overtime and that, but you’ll get fellas who’ll rack up 200 hours of holiday and it gets near to March and they’ll be like ‘What am I meant to do with that?’ I’d be off like a flash somewhere new.