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Vintage Scooter Sketch

Last week, on these boards, somebody suggested to me that there was a particularly shocking scenario that could be used to good effect in a sketch. Here is my attempt.

Int Vintage Scooter Shop - Morning

Terry is walking around the shop looking at various scooters. He stops and starts looking at a Lambretta. The owner of the shop, Sam, comes over.

Sam: Beautiful isn’t it.

Terry: Yeah, you can say that again. I had one like this back in the 60’s.

Sam: I drove this very one down to Brighton on the mayday bank holiday in ’64. Got into a few scrapes that weekend, I can tell you.

Terry: Oh yeah? You beat a few rockers heads in did yer?

Sam: Rockers? Rockers?! Nah, didn’t see any of them down there.

Terry: Oh, really?

Sam: Yeah, it was mostly toddlers down there.

Terry: Toddlers?

Sam: Hordes of ‘em. Riding up and down the seafront on their trikes laughing at us. Heh, they weren’t laughing for long though.

Terry: I don’t think I follow….

Sam: One of ‘em, I think he was the leader like, came up and started giving it all this. He reckoned he was gonna get his dad after me. I wasn’t standing for that, so I picked him up and you know what I did?

Terry: What?!

Sam: I kicked him in the nuts! Then his little mate come running up to me and said I smell, so I grabbed hold of him and kicked him in the nuts and all.

Terry: You sick bastard. I’m going to report you.

Terry storms out. Sam starts to reminisce.

Sam: They were the days. Nothing like giving a toddler a good, hard kick in the nuts.

The door to the shop opens and in walks a man with his 3 year old son. Sam looks speechless.

Man: Hi!

Sam starts running towards the 3 year old screaming and raises his foot ready to kick him in the testicles, but the scene abruptly ends before contact is made.

That's what I'm talking about!

This is really not working for me. I'm struggling with a bloke beating up babies and finding a funny link (having said that I did write one about eating babies so just ignore that!) I would have prefered the bloke coming through the door with the toddler and remembering him from the past and he's now massive and ugly and up for it, kinda thing. I don't know. It's not for me as it stands, though. Sorry!! xxx

Not sure where the joke is here.
But I guess something could be made of Sam confusing toddlers and Rockers.

Terry: You beat a few rockers heads in did yer?

Sam: Yes. Hordes of ‘em. Riding up and down the seafront on their trikes

I thought I'd get it ... being old enough to be active in the sixties (although I was more into the flower power stuff ... still got me little bells!) but I didn't. Maybe marion's got it ... I don't know .. pity!

It was an exercise in shock humour. I laughed exceptionally loud last night when I thought it up, but it is somewhat of a niche humour and I fully understand that.

I only wish I'd written it myself.

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