Highlight from my Scotland holiday:
(the full story under the cut)
In Glasgow, there was this bookshop which sold mostly sci-fi, fantasy & horror books.
Me and my dad visited there twice, the first time for a lil look around (and also me trying to restrain getting an obligatory AuDHD compulsive purchase lol), then the second time (after a walk around the town which we were in) cuz I actively failed in trying to restrain my obligatory AuDHD compulsive purchasing and eventually bought a book. There were some books of interest that I thought about buying but then thankfully I managed to somewhat restrained myself slightly more from buying almost all the books there lmao (books such as “Black Flame” by Gretchen Felker-Martin and “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier really intrigued me), so I only bought 1 book.
The book in this case was Robert Aickman’s “Cold Hand in Mine” (partly cuz I really wanna read more anthology books/short story collections (especially the horror and gothic genre), but mostly cuz Reece Shearsmith was featured in the foreword of the book, and obviously if Reece is in something, I must see/buy it lol)
My dad & I then went to the checkout and we had a nice chat with the cashier there. The cashier was called Philip, and we talked many different things, such as us (me and dad + the rest of my family) being in Scotland for the first time, and my dad asked Philip about the other places in Scotland that we could visit and Philip was a lovely chap and told us about the different and wonderful places in Scotland we could visit. We also talked about how the different accents in Scotland were quite different, like for example the accents in Edinburgh are a bit lighter compared to Glasgow where the accents are a bit thicker.
I told Philip that the film “Trainspotting” (1996) was filmed in Glasgow (even tho the film took place in Edinburgh lol) and Philip was like “oh yeah that’s cool :))”.
I also told Philip that he kinda looked like Scottish comedian Limmy (cuz he did genuinely look a bit like Limmy lol), and Philip appreciated the compliment and said smth like “aww thank you, I get that all the time :)). People come up to me and do say “oh my god is that Limmy 🤯🤯?!?!” and stuff :))” , and then I asked him if he did meet Limmy, to which he said yes and then he showed me and my dad a photo of him with Limmy at a book-related event (probably for Limmy’s book at the time, idk which one tho lol I didn’t look at the photo clearly to see which one it was lol, probably Limmy’s autobio but not sure) and i was like “omg you’re so lucky!! That’s gotta be your proudest achievement fr!!” and Philip was like “fr yeah :))”
I was a bit worried we were disturbing Philip’s time , so I asked him “oh yeah, hopefully we’re not annoying you” and fortunately Philip was cool and was like “no no, you’re not annoying me, i like to chat :))” and I was like “phew 😮💨”
After that, we said goodbye to Philip, and then we went off.
That’s my personal highlight from my Scotland holiday.
