Ingeis a barrow boy and some-time salesman at Wigan fruit and vegetable wholesale market. He has pushed his barrow willingly and pushed everything to the limit,such as the people and his drinking in more ways than one since he left the big school.
But hey ho....! He's just young and enjoying life to the full. Defiantly not a morning person and hates getting out of bed before the milkman and the Lark!
He really didn't think everything was going to be so hard. Capriciously walking his tightrope and desperately balancing work and his typically crazy social life is pretty hard going. Even for the best of them. With its never-ending pit-falls and a multitude of ups and downs to overcome. It would be so much easier being a famous pop star. After all, he can play one or two chords on a keyboard and even hold a tune. And why not, everybody's doing that in the 1980's aren't they?
But even so, until he ever get's to become a Pop-Star, he's decided this 'life' stuff's really quite good fun. Maybe if he just knuckles down a little more and grabs the bull by the horns. He might just break through all the barriers forever holding him back.
But there's so many of them
The brother, the mother, the girlfriend and the others.
And where's this notorious bull to grab anyway?
It would enormously help if he could just try to keep himself out of the local pubs and all those nightclubs long enough to focus on anything at all?
The Market customers aren't much help either. Or the Good and Evil Tempters sitting invisibly on his shoulders and squatting inside his head.
In fact, there's so many things stopping him reaching his full potential. Not least himself! But what the hell! Despite of everything thrown in his path,he's on a very interesting journey.
Full of fun and fear
and love and beer.
Joy and pain
and sunshine and rain.
But then,learning how to live a life's like that!
Authors Note;The Market Lads and Me is my fond recollections and happy memories of a week in my life in the early 1980's working at Wigan wholesale fruit and vegetable market. The writing is based on real people, real lives and real events....with a little Tomfoolery!