/authors/dodgy-dude/ Recent content in Dodgy Dude on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/61506/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/61506/ <p>The snooty doorman gave me a dirty look, but he let me in anyway. He had to. He knew me from the other times that I had visited the building. And he knew that my friend Nikki was a registered tenant and would allow me in. But he didn&rsquo;t like letting people like me, in my old, wet biker leathers, into his posh apartment block. Nikki&rsquo;s dad had bought a bachelor flat as an investment in the new London financial district, and he was holding it while the market was in a slump. Nikki meanwhile could live in it while she studied sculpture at St. Martin&rsquo;s College. It had become the hang-out of choice for our group of friends.</p>