Yes - that's quite a job for the birthday cake baker in your life Mathos. That kind of cake calls for quite a cook with quite a lot of skill. Marzipan isn't easy to make. Do you require specific shapes and colors as well?
On my eighteenth birthday, I remember listening to "Sugar Mountain" by Neil Young and crying at the line, "you can't be twenty, on Sugar Mountain". Childhood was over.
Were you scared when you realized childhood was over and you were facing adulthood?
Scared is much to strong a word for me.
Curious is more how I vaguely felt.
Were you not looking forward a bit to not being given spending money by two gormless plonkers?
It isn't over at all, I am only 18 years old. Regardless of what my birth certificate says. All the people who really know me, understand that it is foolish to think of myself as anything other than eighteen.
Whenever my wife says to me' "You are being really stupid, people are looking at you like your a total idiot."
I quite honestly say, "They are not, they are all laughing!"
That was last week in Manchester, because the little door to a window display was open with scantily dressed mannequins looking lonely, so I sat with them for a while, in my fancy new boxer shorts, because they were in their underwear, I thought it only right. When people stared in the window, I winked and made funny faces, it was funny.
My wife said, "It's time you grew up."
I earned my own spending money by then. I'd been babysitting or working for quite a while.
I looked forward to independence, and in fact, I found it quite liberating and not scary at all - I guess it was more of the change and the unknown that scared me.
Are you ever afraid of the unknown - even if it promises to be somewhat exciting?
Good - because that was a funny story.
Have you had other outings such as that one?
Like when I take sausages off peoples plates in cafe's, that really makes my wife do a runner?
I would too if I was her.
What is your wife's most defining personality trait or characteristic?
To be perfectly honest with you, she's gorgeous. Always has been, figure like any 30 year old would be proud to have, great sense of humour, puts up with me, and believe you me, that takes some doing.
On the down side, she shouts at me for doing daft things, and lectures me and go's absolutely balistic when I juggle about with her photographs on a photo manager and put her head on a sumo wrestler, stick printed photograph on gate post with sign saying;-
Stuff the dog
Mind she don't get ya!
But Mathos - how could she do anything but laugh at something like that?
How did you guys meet?
Which guys?
How am I supposed to answer a question like that?
You and whoever is most important in your life.
(You're supposed to answer it truthfully).
I went in a pharmacy for some condoms when I was 17 (last year) she was serving behind the counter, and looked ravishing, so I bought a comb. Then I bought more combs, toothbrushes, loads of 'em, elastoplast, bandages, cough drops, and it was really daft thinking what I could buy next.
Isn't life strange?
Oh yes, it is that.
So what about her caught your eye?
No, I don't think life is strange. People, now, they're another story! Why one time I was in a cafe and this strange guy reached over and grabbed one of my sausages!
What do you think of that?
Her face, she was absolutely 'drop dead gorgeous'
Can you understand that feeling?
I think he must have been hungry and it might have been Mathos.
Are you the kind of person who would get angy or are you the type who would give him another one?
Mame would give me all of her sausages, wouldn't you Mame?
