S01.E06 ‘I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!’

T-Stripe’s ‘wife’ hadn’t been seen anywhere in public for a while.

But Polonium Stripe, as she was formally known, or somewhat skittishly ‘210’ to her face-to-face friends, and ‘P.S.’ to the unfollowed was definitely somewhere. 

But Polonium, wherever somewhere was, was not happy with T-Stripe. The 'Big T' (as she’d once called him) had not been himself recently.

She suspected he had another significant interest. Indeed the Big T hadn’t been that big at all recently. Quite small. In fact.

The Big T was underperforming.

Polonium Stripe, ex-worker, clothes horse, magnate magnet, was looking for a new thing in her life. But would she be getting her goody goods today?  The jury was quite literally and also quite figuratively still out on that one.

Polonium Stripe was almost the last thing on the Big T’s mind at that moment.

Polonium was way past her half-life.

Polonium was failing.

Polonium was well in need of something that he wasn’t about to give.

And with so many others from the other side in need of that thing he really did want to give, who needed Polonium?

There wasn’t just ‘another’. There was a whole bus full of others. Ready and waiting for his Big T.

And The Big T was ripe for action. 

The Big T was El Supremo. 

King of the Castle. 

The Head Honcho. 

The Dominant Dude.

The Great Groper.

The Triumphant Tripe.

Yes. All of the above. But then still with a tiny wee little schlapta as well.

To be the first and possibly last traveller to cross The Bridge had not been a lifelong ambition of Vladjek Mislovic. 

Taking part in the 1988 Winter Olympics. That had been his lifelong ambition. An ambition which Vladjek had to admit seemed, for the last 29 years or so,  to be slowly but unmistakably slipping further and further through his fingers.  Resigned to an existence of perpetual disappointment then, the last thing he had allowed for was meeting a Polonium. And the last thing on a long list of all the last things he had allowed for was meeting a Polonium on The Bridge.

But there she was. Just a girl. Standing in front of boy. Asking him to......

To be continued........