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>Coming home this morning from The Square in a taxi >with my weekly shopping packed away in the boot. > >"Is there any football on tonight?" asks the taximan. > >"Not that I know of," I say. > >"Oh well..." he laughs. "If there was football on, I >tend to get dragging into watching it." > >We chuckle at flimsy excuses not to work. I say: > >"I'm told I'm watching the final of 'Stars in Their >Eyes' this evening. Do you watch it yourself?" > >"Naw. I don't like talent shows." > >He ponders a minute. > >"I was in a few talent shows, mind, when I was >starting off. (By "starting off" he means when he was >younger.) > >"I even won one once in Brigid Burke's [pub]. I won a >suite of furniture! I was expecting about a thousand >pounds... > >He drives a bit more, then adds: > >"It went into a skip just before last Christmas." > >I say: "It lasted longer than a thousand pounds would >have then?" > >We chuckle. > >"No, I don't like talent shows." > >I wish I had his suite of furniture.

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