“I WAS STUCK IN GLASGOW once for 10 days. Really stuck in Glasgow. It was a weird situation. I had just joined the company. It was 2005. Actually, I was a young guy. I was still just 25 years old. I was with my wife and we had a baby. I was supposed to go to this tech conference in Europe, and they had canceled the conference at the last minute, but they didn’t tell anybody who had signed up for it that it was canceled. So, I had the plane tickets, and I was there, but there was no conference. So what did I do? I saw there was another conference Glasgow and I said, ‘I’m going to Glasgow.’ I was in Scotland already. I thought I might as well go to that conference, but it was 10 days in the future from that moment. So I was just hanging out in Glasgow for 10 days, but I got a very good taste for the city. At first, I hated Glasgow. Because I was coming from Edinburgh and I was expecting this sort of fairy tale castle magic and we rolled into the grim Glasgow bus station. But it really started to grow on me over time. The architecture. The weird, orange sunlight. Just this vibe. I can’t explain it. I started to really love it, especially on a Friday night, when Glasgow was like a war zone. There were fights and people getting sick and sleeping in the park. I can’t deny that it left a strong impression on me. Whenever I meet someone from Glasgow, I always think, what it was like to grow up in such a place. You know?”
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