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We exchanged pleasantries between jokes and it turned out that the four lads all<br />

actually came from Liverpool and had been doing management consulting and<br />

IT assistance in the ‘region’ for about five years. When they asked what I did I<br />

played down the customer service gig but they were quite polite about it and I<br />

thought maybe it wasn’t actually that bad.<br />

Through the course of the night they taught me that I was wrong about people<br />

from Liverpool, they weren’t all cunts. I thought about it really hard and<br />

decided that you probably got all sorts in every type of group and while I still<br />

believe that stereotypes exist for a reason, individuals can buck the trend and be<br />

different. Maybe I was the knob for being so judgemental about such a large<br />

group of people. Me starting off on the wrong foot maybe pushed the Scousers<br />

I’d met before into acting in a negative way.<br />

What wasn’t up for discussion was the shit I stepped into upon my return to the<br />

digs me and Elly were staying at. It was about 7 am by the time we’d finished<br />

drinking and I’d paid a taxi driver and shown him the address I’d earlier<br />

programmed into my phone. I got back not longer after expecting Elly to be<br />

sleeping.<br />

I’d told her that I was going to have a few with the lads and then head back,<br />

which turned out to be what happened. When she got back from her fun filled<br />

evening she had sent a message saying she was tired and wouldn’t wait up for<br />

me but the door was unlocked. I had a second key so I called her back, told her

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