This Construction Life by Patrick Butler

Author:Patrick Butler
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Self-Publishing Partnership

Chapter 12

London

LONDON CHARACTERS

The site Characters I met from my early days in London! Eddie the Albanian AKA “Porn Star Eddie”

Eddie was Baghir’s Albanian cousin. You will learn all about Baghir later. Eddie, like Baghir, had that tough warrior look. Most of them Albanians have that defined jawline. He had cropped blond hair and the cut of a tough man. He was as mad as a box of frogs. He always approached you with a smile but don’t be lured into a false sense of security by that smile. He had a very short fuse and he could beat you up if he lost the rag with you. If you riled him it was at your peril. These boys had a hard life. Their existence was just an existence.

Eddie left Albania and stowed away up through Europe, starting off as a farm labourer in Greece. He didn’t like the Italians and so he kept going until he got to France. He maintained that the Italians were a mean-spirited bunch. But then he might have been up to mischief. He got into trouble with the Gendarmerie in Paris. He told me he got caught selling hash in the park in Paris for a distant cousin. My brother, who was working for me at the time, told me that story on the way home from work on a foul, wet January evening. That was the thing about Eddie. He was a bit innocent and certainly had no filter. He could say anything. You would have to know how to navigate situations with him when he got out of hand.

Back to Paris. The Gendarmerie locked him up for two weeks. Then one day they left him out of the cells. They gave him all his belongings and drove him to the countryside north of Paris. They gave him some money and told him he had two weeks to leave the country. They warned him if they saw him ever again, they would send him down for a minimum of two years. They advised him of his options. There were two. You can go to Italy but the Italian border police are too clever and will not let you back into Italy. England is that way, and that is easy. Off you go. Don’t let us see you again. He got it.

He was heading to Calais anyway before he was caught selling hash in the park! I suppose he needed the money. Eddie’s uncle and cousin were in London anyway. He arrived at the port in France and waited for Albanian-registered lorries and picked one and strapped himself to the underside of an artic trailer. He arrived in Dover and nearly got caught by the sniffer dogs. He admitted to me that he was quite scared of getting caught when he could see the border guard and the dogs’ legs. He maintained that the night was so cold that the dogs’ nasal passages were blocked and that is why the dogs didn’t detect him. Once

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