THE GAMES

‘Koo-ker, koo-ker, koo-ker,’ said the man as he wandered around the foyer a couple of times drinking from a bottle of White Lightening as we waited for the lift.
‘Come on lift, come on lift,’ he said looked at me I smiled.
In the lift he pressed the button to his floor and the one to mine after asking, ‘what you want?’
We didn’t say anything for a couple of floors and I was thinking to ask him why he’d cut his hair off when he said, ‘you watching the Games?’
‘The Games?’
‘Yes, the Commonwealth Games.’
‘I didn’t know they’d started already.’
‘Yeh, Scotland won a gold in swimming and England won gold silver bronze in one race in the cycling.’
‘Oh yeh?’
‘Yeh, and, oh what else was there? Anyway, some more medals've been won.’
The lift stopped at his floor he got out and said, turning slightly towards me before going to the one-bedroomed flat near left, ‘England beat Australia in the rugby sevens.’
‘Oh, right,’ I said before the lift door closed.