Among his many fetishes UTC has a fondness for collecting special national or international ‘celebration’ or ‘awareness’ months. You know the sort of thing. Turkey Lover’s Month, Adopt-a-Cat Month, Potty Training Awareness Month. (Yes, these are all ‘real’ events.)
But his gob was smacked to discover that last month was officially ‘Accordion Awareness Month’. He spent the next half hour questioning his long-suffering co-workers about whether they’d ever been anywhere near someone playing an accordian and not been aware of it. Turns out the accordion has roughly the same qualities to his ear as the bagpipes appear to have on everyone who isn’t Scottish.
Jimmy Shand my arse, was his succinct conclusion.
