Yep if I started chatting I would still be there now, so had to hold my tongue and bail quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares
Cheers Ean
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Yep if I started chatting I would still be there now, so had to hold my tongue and bail quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares
Cheers Ean
G'day Chops.
Many years ago (in another lifetime) while living in Sydney,I rode and drank with a lot of patch wearing, motorcyclists,HA,F,JJ,CC, but that was before the (Drugs and Weapons) most like myself had full time jobs, mine required me to wear a suit daily,my hair in a pony tail, a senior member of the Angels worked in a bank another was a solicitor,(long hair was in style then 60/70's) evening wear was, jeans (originals,leather jacket,sleevless Levi Jacket,flying boots with steel horse shoes in the heels,car driver educators)but the only "weapon" most of us had was the chain used to lock up our bikes,weapons and drugs appeared post "Stone" 1975.
Yes, I was involved in that movie (worse luck) :(
I helped out a couple in a carpark, had a flat, he was about as useful as a diet crouton. Pulled out the hi lift, jacked just enough to rotate the wheel and found the screw & pulled it & plugged it. Got the compressor and pumped it up. He was dumbfounded, she berated him for not being as useful as he could be.
Do tell,,, ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by UncleHo
I rode a GPZ1100 (yeah I know,, jap-crap,, but it really was a good bike :D), I pulled into the local servo to get fuel, just as I got off to fuel up, two really gorgeous looking HD's pulled up at the same bowser. I'm staring at their bikes,, damn they looked awesome, lots of chrome/murals. Anyway, they spoke to me :eek:,, knees start knocking.
One was a barrister, and the other a solicitor. They looked and dressed fairly rough, but both spoke with a plum in their mouth :D. We had a good conversation, ending with them giving me a card and said "If ever" I needed anything :D.
I lived 30 odd K out of town, so we all rode out together and up the road till I had to turn off.
They'd done their good deed for the day ;), (and were prepared to do more "if/when needed"), and I had an absolute ball riding along with them for that short time. :D
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Nice one Ean,,
I too was taught to do this sort of thing. Too bad the kids of today don't have the manners to think of helping. It would be nice to see occasionally.[/QUOTE
Blame it on their parents. When we were kids we were tought manners and respect.
Dave
I am as proud as punch of all my kids, like most parents are.
Whilst walking thru the local Westfields on day, we saw an elderly lady slip & fall no too far infront of us.
Before I could say a word, Miss 10 & Miss 13 were there with her. They made sure she was ok, and helped her back to her feet. Despite the lady protesting, the girls asked if we could take her home as that is where she was headed.
We had the Disco, and I was trying to work out how to get her in, when she said that she already had a cab booked & waiting for her. So, we all walked her to the cab, and I had a quick word with him to let him know what had happened.
He was her regular driver, and said he would keep an eye on her.
All of my girls will give to the tin rattlers in the shopping centre, and always out of their own money. I know all their friends, and they know us.
Its not about the generation, its about the upbringing.
I guess that's true, but it's only because of the new ideas other have thrown an them
Uncle Ho, I think that is a terrible misconception. I have a quite a few young people from ages 15-25 come and go from our house all the time and every one of them are sensible, courteous, helpful, willing to have a conversation, tidily dressed etc. Sometimes I think we forget how we must have appeared to our forefathers. In the 70's I was a long haired hippy git who wore tangerine coloured jeans and paisley printed shirts and beads....beads? I was a freak ....and the music I listened to.....should have been banned.....and my language....things like yeah man,....cool.....peace.....Believe it or not we were just becoming the early puppets in a world of rapidly changing personal identification. I went through trends. Sometimes the "adults"....even though I had become one......didn't want to associate with me.....I don't think its really changed...only the way we communicated with each other.....technology has changed that.
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Originally Posted by Basil135
My eldest daughter (just turned two) says "please" and "thank you" and "no thank you" where appropriate. It is all in how you raise them and, importantly, behave yourself while they are around.