Work trips

Posted by Katy Regan at 10:43 on 6 Mar 2008

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'Work trip eh, Egg?' That old chestnut.

I think Egg is having one of those 'I am 40' crises. He's away in Berlin at the moment 'working'. I am aware I always put that word in parenthesis when it concerns Egg and going on trips anywhere, but that's because I have finally worked out that if you are a photographer and go anywhere with your camera, it is classed as 'working' when it is usually no more 'working' than me taking my throwaway camera to Tenerife.

OK, so he's taking a few snaps of some offices for some project he's doing on 'offices' funnily enough. But isn't that just the most genius excuse you've ever heard to go anywhere in the world? Since almost everywhere in the world has offices?

Back to his midlife crisis. I called him yesterday (at his private apartment he'd hired with a mate in Berlin, I was becoming suspicious already) and he could hardly talk.

'Oh, you're ill?' I said
'Yeah, yeah lost my voice'.
'Oh no, so are you feeling crap, won't you be able to work?' I asked, concerned.
'No I was just up till 4am pogo dancing, I've just overdone it a bit,' he croaked.

So whilst I am at home looking after his son and not going out anywhere, he's jumping about 'pogo dancing' (what is that?) sweaty and drunk with his mates till 4am like, Shane MacGowan or something and not just for one night but three on the trot!

He thinks he's twenty-five, I tell you, he's regressed into a man-child (my friend Laura who I went on the singles' walk with thinks this happens to all single men in their thirties or forties - that's why none of them want to go out with us.) He'll be calling me up off his head on ecstasy next, having been stripped naked and tied up to a lamppost in Antwerp.

I've got no moral stance against that sort of behaviour, I'd be pogo dancing till 4am too, given half the chance, it's just he's nearly forty one, and more importantly than that, I thought this was a 'work' trip??!

Last time I fall for that old chestnut.

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