If only I'd thought of it!

[buggi]

Where to i apply for the job??? or do i just turn up??

 

[Archie_tect]

was this trustworthy person some one you met in the pub one night

Nope, someone far more reliable! .... but then why would I be in a pub?

 

[Archie_tect]

Where to i apply for the job??? or do i just turn up??

Tried it in our local Sainsbury's car park.... got £13.50 before I was chucked off by the lad collecting trolleys.

 

[Hover Fly]

Twenty plus years ago, when I was on strike, I rode up the Duddon Valley, when I reached the T junction with the Hard Knott and Wrynose passes I decided not to go any further but leaned on the gate across the bottom of HK admiring the view. A car approached, out of politeness I opened the gate, as the car passed through the driver handed me £1! A group of cars were coming down the hill so I held the gate open, instant £5! I was there until tea-time and rode home £30 better off, my wages at this time would have been about £60 for a week. Of course I went back the next day, then Saturday (£70) and Sunday (£130). So it carried on. I went back to work a fortnight after the strike had finished, giving the excuse of a sprained ankle.

 

[Dayvo]

Twenty plus years ago, when I was on strike, I rode up the Duddon Valley, when I reached the T junction with the Hard Knott and Wrynose passes I decided not to go any further but leaned on the gate across the bottom of HK admiring the view. A car approached, out of politeness I opened the gate, as the car passed through the driver handed me £1! A group of cars were coming down the hill so I held the gate open, instant £5! I was there until tea-time and rode home £30 better off, my wages at this time would have been about £60 for a week. Of course I went back the next day, then Saturday (£70) and Sunday (£130). So it carried on. I went back to work a fortnight after the strike had finished, giving the excuse of a sprained ankle.

Nice story, HF! And I DO believe you, unlike some miserable so-and-sos on here, or there!

And I liked your story, too, AT; I hadn't heard it before, either, and I haven't led a sheltered life!

 

[Dave Davenport]

I still don't know if he was having me on but the manager of a foundry I used to do work for told me that they had a bloke who used to take a wheelbarrow full of broken pallets home every Friday lunchtime for his fire, did it for years.

A few months after he retired the tool suppliers they used phoned up and asked why they'd stopped ordering so many wheelbarrows.