Yesterday I called in at Glastonbury on my way home, as I walked up the main street I overheard a mother tell her young son “Watch where you’re pointing your wand*”.
I just thought that Glastonbury would be the only place you would ever hear that quote.
Any more site specific quotes?
* a gnarly length of wood.
Overheard quotes (that you’d probably only hear in one place)
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On Easter Monday last year, while waiting for replacement pickups (Seth Lovers for all guitar geeks out there) to be fitted to my new semi-hollow, I wandered around a fete by the river in the small Norfolk town of Wymondham*.
The usual sort of stuff was to be found – books, bric-a-brac, a tea stall, guess the weight of the cake, duck race on the river.
All pretty humdrum, until I heard a young father summon his infant son: “Zeus!” I presume Dad hadn’t heard the castration version of the myth.
*Rhymes with “binned ’em”…
Walking through the Wigan town square I heard a father say to his son “Careful with that pie Eugene”.
When I was living in Brighton in the 90s, the neighbours had a son called Aslan (you know, the lion in the C.S. Lewis book?).
It’s quite a name to live up to when you think about it.