Edinburgh Festival Fringe Day 1

Monday 12^th August



And so to day one of the festival.  The first show I wanted to see began at four forty five.  This was Yianni in Think Big, his third successive show at the fringe.  Having seen this Greek/Australian comic perform at one of my local pubs I already had a sense of what to expect. Or so I thought.  The information I’d seen about this show indicated that there would be some audience participation however I wasn’t expecting to be a part of it myself.  I was picked out and asked for my answer to the question that had been the first projector slide.  The question was ‘what would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?’ I decided to be profound with my answer and said ‘continue’.  This turned out to be rather unlike the answer Yianni was expecting.  I didn’t realise I meant to say stop world hunger or something like that.  This managed to throw him a little and stopped him in his tracks for a moment.  However, you want to see how a comedian reacts to audience responses and I did feel a little smug about it, just for a moment. Yianni confessed to not knowing what to say but felt I had offered the best answer in the ten days the show had been running.

According to him Cant is the new C-word.  I had been told that all the way through school, and yet I still use it to this day.  I always questioned that there is no such word as cant; mostly by being facetious and suggesting if that’s the case why was it in the oxford English dictionary? These things can’t be entered if they don’t exist, after all!
After the show we headed down to the nearest pizza hut.  I had a very nice Americano pizza.  There’s not much to say about that other than it was eleven inches on the flat. As for the pizza it was an Italian thin crust!
It was getting on for seven o’clock by now and my friends decided it was a good idea to go across the water to Stirling in order to visit one of their relatives.  It had been my friend’s brother’s birthday on Saturday and they had a few presents to give to him.  As we drove over the bridge I could see the forth bridge in the near distance.  This was the first time id seen it at the same height. Previous to this id only ever seen it from the ground up.  The best thing was the way the cloud covering the sun made the bridge shine.
The most unusual sighting of the day had to be a shop called Happit.  I’m not surprised it was closing down as most of the stock looked like a load of old tat.  Thus making it a Happitat shop!