He wasn’t about to face an irate best friend on an empty stomach. Shaking his head, Christian pulled out and headed straight for the Quickie Mart. With a half sigh, half laugh, he tossed the bat into the truck bed and climbed behind the wheel. The driver peeled out of the parking lot and lay rubber on the highway. “Give it to your friend as a souvenir.” With that, she yanked open the door of a midsize car that looked as if it belonged to an elderly person. He watched her wiggle off, fighting the heavy ache in his groin. “It’s Claire,” she tossed over her shoulder. Pivoting away, she started across the lot. “Your name?” When she hesitated, he said, “So I can at least give you credit for your handiwork.” Christian stole another look at the girl’s face.
And besides, this girl couldn’t very well run around looking like that and expect a red-blooded male to be immune.Ī pickup bumped into the parking lot, spraying gravel and dust around them. Still, he’d like to believe he wasn’t as much of a hound as Tucker. “I thought he was the real thing.”Ĭhristian scuffed a boot against the gravel and looked away. “Yeah, well, I see the way you’re looking at me, and it’s no different from your friend. “That’s a broad statement from someone who doesn’t even know me.” If the distribution within the UK was similar to that within the other countries of this group then we should see the regions of the UK (red columns) clustered around the middle of this ranking.Leaning against the door, still warm from the late afternoon sun, he clamped the bat under his arm. We have seen that per capita income in the UK is slightly below, but very close to, the average for this group of northern European countries - but how is this income distributed within the country? I rank the NUTS-2 Regions within this group of countries from lowest to highest. The second argument is that the UK's regional policy is particularly poor and that the UK is a particularly bad place to choose to be a peripheral region. It remains the case though that we have circumstantial evidence in favour of the first argument: the small countries of North West Europe appear to do a bit better than their larger neighbours, and this bodes well for the prospects of an independent Scotland. Small wealthy regions may choose independence rather than independence leading to wealth. This is not a very strong argument for independence: it is suggestive of small countries doing slightly better than large countries, but tells us nothing about the direction of causality. The red data point is the UK - slightly below the average for this group of countries, but not by much. The vertical dashed line shows Scotland's population and the horizontal dashed line shows average income per capita across these countries. The trend (solid line) for income per capita against population size is decreasing, hence the first argument.
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