June 26 Cooke loses out in sprint finish

on Sunday 26 June 2011
We are watching Cooke holding the razor in front of him. he lost and whilst Woz is taking Tina out, holding doors open for her and ordering vodka tonics he is home alone, with a razor and a bottle of Skol.
He'd lost the first event; still found it hard to believe Woz used to be a performance poet but he'd won the second. This was Cookes moment, we watch as he remembers the white pony he'd bought back and the look on Woz's face with his pitiful offering of a flashing roadside lamp.
Score even, Tina had called for a third event, the winner of which would take her arm.
After a week of growing anticipation the three of them had met in the Wimpy opposite the Clocktower.
Woz was there first, his small but wiry beard plaited into two twists, each ending in a tiny silver bell, Cooke came second, the pencil thin spiv style of his moustache accentuated by a silver case of hand rolled cigarillos.
The tension was almost unbearable but finally she made her decision: Tina rang Woz's bell and Cooke conceded
And now we worry as Cooke stands at the mirror, razor in hand, trying to blank out all thoughts of Woz and Tina and what they may be getting up to. He holds the blade under the hot tap.
Whilst this happening, in town Tina is dancing and laughing and Woz is counting his blessings unaware a storm is brewing. Cooke is drawing up plans, moustache very much still attached to his face, he may have lost the race but the season has only just begun.
And there are plenty of other teams.
And he likes the taste of Skol.
And Tina's ends her laughs with a burp.

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