Tiggy
Sunday 11th February 2024 8:00pm [Edited]
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A LADY LEANS OUT OF HER CAR WINDOW TO TALK TO A MAN.
LUCY: Hello! Excuse me, is this Shireton?
MAYOR GARCIA: No Señorita, this is Mexico.
LUCY: Mexico?
MAYOR GARCIA: Yes Mexico. We changed the name last year.
LUCY: Changed it? Why?
MAYOR GARCIA: Well we discovered that Mexico had far better brand recognition than Shireton.
LUCY: Er...Shireton is, was, a town of only about 10,000 people.
MAYOR GARCIA: Whereas the old Mexico over in...Mexico has well over double that. Everybody knows about them so now everybody knows about us.
LUCY: That's not how it works. You're still a small town here in this county.
MAYOR GARCIA: Might trick a few in coming here.
LUCY: How? What here is even remotely Mexican?
MAYOR GARCIA: Mrs Rodriguez has stopped serving sausage rolls in the tea shop. She only sells quesadillas now. And the pub has changed it's name to the Coach and Burros.
LUCY: The one in the town square?
MAYOR GARCIA: You mean the Place De La Republica?
LUCY: What?
MAYOR GARCIA: Next to the sombrero shop and the bull ring.
LUCY: Bull ring?! Please tell me you're not torturing poor animals!
MAYOR GARCIA: No! The shopping arcade was renamed when we briefly rebranded as Birmingham.
A LADY WALKS PAST
MRS LOPEZ: Hola alcalde García. Buenos días hoy. ¿No?
MAYOR GARCIA: ... Quite mad. Anyway, we've also changed the water fountain to dispense tequila.
LUCY: That must be popular.
MAYOR GARCIA: Bit too popular. We're having to build a wall to keep out all the Americans.
LUCY: That's a bit of a change. I'm surprised they would come all this way though.
MAYOR GARCIA: America is the next door village. Used to be called Little Haverville.
LUCY: Them rebranding too?
MAYOR GARCIA: Everybody is doing it.
LUCY: I'm leaving. This whole place is getting far too weird.
MAYOR GARCIA: OK. Have a safe drive.
LUCY: What's the quickest way back to the motorway?
MAYOR GARCIA: Take the Avenida San Jose out of town towards Scotland, turn left at Egypt, past Mars on the left, right at Alpha Centauri, and if you reach Hell you've gone too far.
THE END