ok, i'll bite. whats the york dalek story? more to the point wats a york dalek?
Long, necessary set up, but worth it. Telling this will also raise the ire of my darling Tonka Toy Legs.
Many, many, moons ago, there was a covered shopping arcade in the City of York that ran from New Street to Davygate called The Davygate Centre that once included a ‘Comic Book’ shop called Nu Earth I think, if not, pretty sure it was 2000ad related. It sold all sort of Sci Fi spanner related stuff and, importantly, they had a full sized Dalek outside the shop. Now this Dalek’s upper dome had a motor and motion sensor that cause the eyestalk to turn and stare at anyone walking past the shop, which was extremely disconcerting if, like @elemental-ocean-chaos, you grew up with The Daleks being you most scary Doctor Who monsters. For me it’s The Cybermen by the way. It is important to not that Nu Earth was, walking from the New Street end, the first shop on the right just as the concourse got wider, and those evil minded gits who ran the shop had placed the Dalek so that it was tucked into the corner, so anyone walking from the New Street end would first notice a Dalek turning it’s eyestalk towards them.
Anyway, when taking her up Davygate showing my then fiancee the wonders of York, completely at random, we went through the Davygate Centre from New Street. As we approached Nu Earth, I pointed out the shop opposite which sold overpriced, but admittedly beautiful interior decor stuff, then, when I clocked that the Dalek had detected us, I shouted “Look out, Dalek!” she screamed, then started running, out onto Davygate, down onto Parliament Street, across High and Low Ousegate, and onto Coppergate, where I finally caught up with her, (we were both a lot fitter 3 decades ago) where I received my first, much deserved, prodding session.
