RE: This will cheer you up...18 Jul 2025 12:08
A true story....
Early 1990's and on , Every Saturday morning I would walk in to this little independent grocery shop run by just Mr & Mrs. More often than not he would be sat on a stool at the back of the shop with a newspaper in hand, awaiting his orders (she was the boss) if not already working away, I recall the words 'my lovely' in response to anything his wife said to him. They had one daughter he spoke proudly of who was away at university.
Hi George, Hello son was his response, if his newspaper wasn't already open he'd open it and point a story or two out, many conversations over the years regarding a number of subjects etc (No need to mention any as I know the truth of this story and what I've taken/learnt from it regarding people and their sincerity and so on) Just how much he was aware/predicted and was so right about to this day makes me wobble my head and is one reason why I recall the conversations with him so clearly, I've told a number of people this story in recent years.
And here is the thing from a completely personal point whether George was right, wrong, wise etc and the reason I know I'd have always remembered him and the time I spent in his company..... My Father just by it's title, Well I had four siblings and he resented every single one of us, if anything would have happened to my Mum, he would have dumped us in to residential care, (the proof, Mum was hospitalised on three occasions growing up and on all occasions he dumped us in to residential care) he was a socialite, a womaniser and it goes without saying he had more time for his newspapers 'The Sun and The News of the World' than his children, ask him their birth dates, he couldn't even tell you the year they were born. He has four of his five children still here to date and has no relationship with any of them for obvious reason to me although I'm shocked he doesn't have one with his daughter because she's evil like him.
All true, that is my word.
Have a nice day all, keep safe. stay alert and remember 'he who dares can lose' but you just have to keep going.
(Did I mention my so called Father knew George, my Father told me George was an idiot, of course he did, two completely different men from the same generation.