When you hate something for so long and you live with the hate on a day to day basis you begin to forget why you began hating that very thing in the first place. If you remove the thing that causes you hate the hatred slowly dwindles too, until you once again come in contact with it, are you following?
Well basically, growing up as an insignificant child in an insignificant town makes you quite ... insignificant and also makes you hate the very place you are from. When I was young I had many reasons to hate Sutton-in-Ashfield, but as time passed I forgot these reasons, seeing as I lived in Derby and I began to hate Derby instead. On a recent trip back to Sutton, my hate was reborn for the shitty little town.
It’s easy to hate a place in which BNP meetings take place and there’s so much panic that all the takeaways have to close fearing they will be attacked because their skin isn’t the same colour as milk. It is also easy to hate a place where the McDonalds is so infested with idiots that some days there’s actually security on the doors and riot vans in the car park, this doesn’t even happen at most pubs in Sutton. It’s a shameful disgrace when it seems that people are close to getting beaten half to death or stabbed over their happy meals. Where sentences like; “You spilt my milkshake, I’m gunna fuck you up!” or “Oi, you eyeing up my burger, cunt?” are commonplace.
And no matter how much the council pathetically attempt to make the place look any better, it always fails. The first example is the sundial. For those that don’t know (and presumably don’t care) Sutton has the largest sundial in Europe in the town centre. Which sounds dull, and it is. The point of a sundial in a town that sees no sun is lost on me. I don’t know if this was meant to attract people to the town, there’s not much excitement in seeing Europe’s largest sundial. It’s just that overtime this sundial became a place for flocks of Chavs to hang out and it remains that way to this day.
The latest attempt at making Sutton better is be revamping the bus station. To a massive cost of £850,000! As the rest of the country complains about the credit crunch and plummets into a recession, it seems that the news is yet to reach Ashfield councillors. As Co Coun Stella Smedley said; "We are committed to improving Sutton's bus station and encouraging more people to make the most of public transport, which is cheaper and kinder to the environment than driving a car."[i] Although I believe the closest Stella Smedley has ever come to a bus is looking like the back of one! The fact is one of the only joys of Sutton is leaving and if you make that more attractive (by building a new bus station) to the population they will eventually abandon the place that has held them back.
That’s the real reason I hate Sutton, it held me back.
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