Team ‘Southend Or Bust’
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Nebraska. Nancy and Southend Or Bust crossed the border. Cue many arguments over what music to play.
“Come on guys, we have to play You and I by Gaga” said Seb. “It’s all about Nebraska!”
“Seb I am not contributing to your love of euro-house and Lady Gaga” said James, stubbornly.
“Mate, Lady Gaga isn’t euro-house” he replied.
“Yeah, but you still like that genre” fired back James. Seb’s face crimpled up in confusion. James continued; “We are playing the whole of Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen, and that’s an end of it”.
“Oh come on guys” Seb retorted.
Martin butted straight in “She only says Nebraska in one line Seb, it’s hardly an anthem about this place is it!”.
“Yeah well it’s a lot better than that old Springsteen bullshit” - dead silence in the car. Seb had gone too far, and he knew it.
James turned to him, and took off his sunglasses. He never did that.
He stared him straight down, whilst his hands fiddled with his phone and opened Spotify. “You never insult The Boss” he said, quietly and sternly.
The album began playing. As if by absolute coincidence, the car started rumbling a bit at that moment.
“Martin” Seb said suddenly. “She’s down on power a bit”.
Misfire. Oh shit. This perfect, smooth engine was no longer such a smooth engine, was it, Martin thought. “Bugger” he said out loud.
Seb and James started laughing. “What a surprise!” James said. “How many times have you told us this engine is fine, eh?”
Martin sat back in his seat, blushing. Thankfully, it didn’t seem to be too much of a misfire, just the occasional one. At least for now, that was.