Mad as hatters

In the attempt to get a hat (for the hat themed 'Edward Ciderhands and Amy Winehands' party - one in which your drink is duck taped to your hand) we went to a vintage shop off of Byres Road.

Whilst there we were engaged in conversation by the shop owner for a good 25 minutes, with topics ranging from:

• excessively high platform shoes
• Converse
• shoplifting
• violent crime in Glasgow
• the West End Festival
• more violent crime (more specifically in the West End)
• Inappropriate comments being shouted at scantily clad young women, and how that didn't happen in her day
• The things she got up to a youngster
• How she feels that ther 14 year old son is safe in the West End, but not in town
• Hats
• The rapidly diminishing stock of 1930s and 40s clothing
• Alcoholic liver disease
• Drug driving

I think if other customers had not come in at this point, we may still be there.