Helpful Matthew

[Sittingduck]

The younger generation needs to be more like you. These days teenagers have no work ethic. Back in my day my mother used to make me work down the coal mine to put dinner on the table. Your parents must be proud of the way they brought up such an extraordinary child.

Ignore the silly trolls above, they are just jealous that their parents didn't let them express themselves as a child.

You were forced to eat coal... for dinner?!! Wow, times really were tough 'back in your day'.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

These days teenagers have no work ethic.

FTFY

 

[Globalti]

Nice article Matt and it explains your generosity of spirit, which comes across in your posts. There are some mean and narrow-minded folk on this forum and they could do with taking a leaf out of your book.

 

[darth vadar]

I dropped my son off in Prestatyn at the start of the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend and I noticed a speed van parked up and still operating at 9.20pm in the evening!

Welcome to Wales eh?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

How cute..... and (with all due respect) weird!

I bet the employees you were helping to were sad to see you go as they would actually have to do some work again!

 

[Arch]

I dropped my son off in Prestatyn at the start of the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend and I noticed a speed van parked up and still operating at 9.20pm in the evening!

Welcome to Wales eh?

Good! Speeding isn't a 9 to 5 crime.

(actually, is anything?)

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Good! Speeding isn't a 9 to 5 crime.

(actually, is anything?)

Daylight robbery?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I was thinking more things like stationary theft from offices, etc.

 

[lukesdad]

I dropped my son off in Prestatyn at the start of the Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday weekend and I noticed a speed van parked up and still operating at 9.20pm in the evening!

Welcome to Wales eh?

They'd heard Mathew was due out on his bike

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

That said, I collected cardboard too. Smarties tubes!*

I donated them all to The Museum Of Brands in London a while ago.


* - They changed the design of them more often that you would imagine, and they also did 'limited edition' artwork versions. Also there were foreign Versions too (almost invariably white).
The Hexatubes were never the same.

 

[Arch]

I don't remember quite how it started, but when I was doing my A levels, we took to hiding Smartie tubes in the biology lab - the sort of 'hidden in clear view' thing - along the top of the blackboard, standing on a bookshelf like a book spine and so on. Gradually, more and more appeared.

Come Christmas, we strung lots of them on string, and hung them up like garlands.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Well, I donated my collection to the nation, regardless of whether the nation wanted them or not!

In all seriousness though, they are the sort of things which just get binned, so I imagine most of the examples in my collection would have been unspeakably rare, maybe even the last in existence in some cases.

I hope Robert Opie and his lot appreciate them.