A mobile fish & chip shop with a sign saying
'Big Dicks'
A small man in a suit with a clipboard approaches the van. As he does so the large Jovial owner appears carrying a sandwich board which he sets out on the pavement.
AH
Excuse me are you the owner?
BIG D
I've been called worse
He smiles and then wipes his hand down his filthy apron and offers his hand as he speaks. His hand is refused.
BIG D
Big Dick McGuffy how can I help you?
AH
I'm Arthur Hall...
BIG D
What happened to the other half?
AH
I'm with the council and I'm afraid I have a complaint
BIG D
Well, if you want to use my portaloo you'll have to buy something first! But I'm not having you taking it in with you. I've only just got my licence back. I'll keep it in the warmer for you till you come back out, just remember to wash your hands in the bucket I've left.
AH
I mean I've had a complaint about you
BIG D
Who off?
AH
Several people actually
BIG D
Well, it can't be the fat again I bought 20 pound of fresh dripping without a single rat footprint on any of it.
AH
It's not about your dripping
BIG D
Well, it can't be about my fryer I held Dave The Dwarfs legs while he went in and cleaned it out with a scrubbing brush and Dettol.
Arthur Hall is clearly getting angry.
AH
I'm not with the Environmental Health, Mr McGuffy
BIG D
Call me Big Dick
AH
I'd rather not
BIG D
(Winks)
That's what she said till she saw it
Arthur Hall has had enough.
AH
Now that right there! That is exactly the reason I'm here Mr McGuffy. To be honest you're lucky we never handed your case straight over to the police!
BIG D
What case, as I said I've only been here an hour
AH
Well in that time you seem to have managed to offend half the seafront with your foul language and gaudy signs
He points to the sandwich board it reads
Big Dicks 12 Inch Whopper
'It comes in a wrapper'
BIG D
That sign's not gaudy, that's traditional that is. The punters love a bit of the old saucy seaside capers. Plus, it's St Valentine's Day you can't let a few wet blankets ruin hundreds of years of tradition.
AH
It's not saucy though is it, its straight up smut
BIG D
Its edgy at worst
Arthur Hall looks at his clipboard and takes a pen out of his shirt pocket.
AH
Could you play your vans tune please
BIG D
(coy)
I'd rather not it flattens the battery
AH
If you don't, I'll call in the police!
Big D reluctantly leans in the van and flicks a switch. As he does so a man voice with a west country accent starts singing out of the speakers.
"I'm a C**t, I'm a C**t, I'm a country dancer!
I've got spots on my dick, on my dick, on my dicky bow!
AH
Waves angrily
Turn it off I've heard enough
BIG D leans in and switches it off and replies in a defensive tone
BIG D
There's nothing wrong with that, the Wurzles sang a version of that on the London Palladium in front of royalty
AH
Its crude and its offensive as are the signs and what you're shouting at people!
Big D is outraged
BIG D
Shouting? It's called 'Barking' and its older than Punch & Judy!
AH
What about the personal abuse, one woman complained directly to you
BIG D
I only asked her if she had crabs? She was carrying a net and bucket for god's sake
AH
She was with her 16 year old daughter!
BIG D
Is that all she was? They must live near to a dairy then
AH
I'm sorry I'm going to ask you to leave, we can do it informally now or we can do it officially and there will only be one winner there
Big D is gutted and worried.
BIG D
I can't leave now I haven't even covered my petrol let alone covered what I paid for my stock.
AH
I'm sorry
BIG D
What if I toned it down and played ball? I'll bring the sign in and stop playing the tune and I'll keep my mouth shut with the passers-by, I promise please I really need the money, Covid was a nightmare for people like me
AH
I'll give you one last chance, but you put one foot wrong!
Big D is relieved and holds up his two fingers.
BIG D
I promise I won't say a word Scouts honour
Two young large chested women with beehive hairstyles approach the van. They are also inexplicably wearing skimpy halter tops, mini- skirts and stilettos despite the inclement weather. Big D's jaw drops as everything he has ever believed in is right before his eyes.
GIRL 1
You know what I really fancy a piping hot 12 incher
Big D is struggling to reply, but he musters the strength.
BIG D
They're two pounds
GIRL 1
(Winks)
Is that the price or the weight?
Big D is really struggling as the council officer stirs at him.
BIG D
The price
The second girl then leans on the counter and her nipples are clearly erect
Girl 2
We're down for the day from Bristol, we had no idea it would be this cold
Big D heroically somehow musters a polite reply.
BIG D
It's been warmer that's for sure
GIRL 2
Go on then I'll have a 12 inch one as well if you can manage it?
BIG D can barely muster a reply as he is still being watched
BIG D
I can
GIRL1
We're supposed to meet our boyfriends in a pub near here. It's called the Blind Cobblers Thumb have you heard of it?
BIG D is now almost beyond his limits.
BIG D
Yes
GIRL1
My boyfriend Rod works there he said he's going to show me how to clean his pipes
Big D's left eye is now twitching furiously and he can't muster a reply.
GIRL 2
My boyfriend Randy works there as well . He the cellar man, he said he's going to take me through the trap door
Big Dick collapses and they all rush to help him.
ARTHUR HALL
Its no use he's dead
GIRL 2
You wouldn't think he was dead the way he's smiling