Yesterday once more

This pandemic is giving us a lot of time to reminisce. I was just thinking of this conversation I had with Jimmy.

Would you like to be young again Jimmy?
I am young.
Younger then.
Like a teenager?
Yeah.
No way
Why not?
It’s all too much trouble Ber.
How do you mean?
All that hanging around with your mates. Chatting up girls, trying to look cool.
You do that every Saturday night down the pub Jimmy.
I do not. I have a few pints and a chat with the lads, that’s all.
Yeah right. I’ve seen you lot eyeing up the young ones.
No harm in looking Ber. I’m not dead yet.
As long as you just look.
Are you jealous?
Of what? Sure, it’s not as if they look back at you.
That’s harsh Bernie. I could still pull the birds.
You’re for the bleedin’ birds Jimmy
Do you not think I could?
Of course you could, down the old folks home maybe. Plenty of aul wans looking for a toyboy to push their wheelchairs.
Fuck off Bernie. I’ve seen young ones looking at me.
Ye, wondering why some aul lad is leering at them.
I’m not an aul lad. I’m in me prime and I think you are jealous.
You love yourself.
I do not.
You do. If you were a bar of chocolate you’d eat yourself.
I can’t help my animal attraction Ber. It’s just as well I’m not as young as I was, sure jasus the young ones would maul me.
Oh they would Jimmy; they would.
What about you Ber?Would you like to be young…sorry , younger again?
I’d love it Jimmy. Out with me mates every weekend, having a few scoops, dancing the night away into the early hours.
And you talk about me? You do that anyway.
Not every weekend Jimmy, and I do be wrecked the next day. When you’re young you never get tired. I used to be able to go all night and still be up early to do a full days work.
Me too Ber. Remember we used to come home with the milkman?
I remember having a sore arse from sitting on the glass bottles on the back of his float.
Those were the days Ber. I suppose it would be nice to be younger again; maybe just for a night. Re live our youth.
Would you go on the pull with your mates?
Ah sure I’d have to.
Are you serious?
Yeah, I’d have to see if I could still pull the best looking bird in Tamangoes nightclub.
What about me Jimmy?
I’m talking about you Bernie
Ah, you’re just a big romantic at heart.
I told you I still had it Ber.
You sure do Jimmy.