A week before Cop and my Glasgow Airbnb landlord is giving me grief, demanding more money for something I booked months ago. He cancels and I grumpily tweet about it. I wake up the following day and my mentions are full of Scots demanding that I “name and shame”. Tabloids start printing the tweet. The Daily Record, Scottish Sun and even Daily Mail are on the case. Some ask for the landlord’s name and address. Nope. I talk to BBC Radio Scotland’s Drivetime and am asked if I harbour negative thoughts about the Scottish people (I don’t).
My trip to Glasgow from New York is punctuated by disrupted trains from London. I make friends with an American comic book writer who is bemused by the disruption: “Don’t they have weather here?”
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