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Five girls, in their early twenties, out for a night. They are all wearing flash dresses, good jackets, carrying little handbags, hair all done to the max. This isn’t just scrubbed up for a Friday night, this is Event scrubbed up - like a wedding party or a prom or something. Walking up Hope St, junction to Bath St, on way to Sauchiehall St. The traffic light turns green, but one of the girls nips across ahead, leaving the others behind. She turns and waves and smiles, while the others wait for the green man. A party limo drives through the junction. There is a bang - a party popper - and the four girls that remain are showered in streams of paper. The all cower for a moment of shock, before they burst out laughing. When the green man appears, they are still picking bits of paper out of each other’s hair, catching the fragments between finger nails as they pick them off from jackets. Once on the other side of the road the first girl laughs - I’m glad I made a dash for it and wasn’t hit by that as well!

Labels: bang, giggling girls, glasgow, limo, party