Funny incident

[Squag1]

I cannot remember who told me but I believe it's true. I can't remember the exact details but the end line is the amusing bit.

In UK, as it happens, guy had father visiting him and they went to the pub.
By chance they got into conversation with another older drinker and conversation turned to bikes. The father had bikes and so did the old guy.
Father began to tell the story of coming out of the pub, The King's Horse, say, and finding bike wouldn't start (can't remember if battery was dud or stolen).
Anyway he and his mate look around and spot a BSA Gold Star and "borrowed" the battery.

The old turns and looks at him.
"You ba$tard, that was my bike"

 

[Squag1]

I was on an Easter Egg run a good few years ago with friend.
The run was from Cork to Kinsale. There were several hundred bikes.
On the way back we stopped for petrol but the group had passed. Was lashed off down the road and caught up with 2 bikes and followed them.
There was going to be grub in the pub.

When they stopped outside a pub the said "you were following us, this isn't the pub" and sent us back to the party.

About two years later I was having lunch in a pub outside Limerick and these group of Cork people were at the next table.
I began to tell the story. They said, "that was us you followed"
What we're the chances?

 

[derek kelly]

In 1984 I attended a four year development course at HMP Deerbolt & stayed at the Turk’s head in Barnard castle, on the course were two guys from HMP Leeds, on the first day one of the Leeds guys stated “I’ve already done this course, I’ve only come cos it’s good fishing up here” next day he was on his way back to Leeds, the other guy started to panic as he had travelled up in the other guy’s car.
About twenty years later we had a guy come to us on promotion, one day we were on a training session & the guy started telling us a tale of when he was on his development course & had to cadge a lift home, I told him it was me & that I’d taken him to his home in Roundhay,

 

[Malone]

Some, actually many, years ago, I was in the pub having a few drinks as we did back then. When I came out to ride home someone had pinched my HT lead and I couldn’t go anywhere.

So I got a new lead and rode home the next day. But that evening when I was watching the late night movie at the local Odeon there was a call for the owner of ……. (Mine) to come downstairs as the Police wanted to see me. I went down and was told someone had attempted to start my bike and had failed. Understandable as that evening I’d decided to remove the HT lead for safekeeping.

 

[T.C]

Had to run a Passenger safety and awareness training session for colleagues at work this morning followed by a staff meeting. This was the first meeting we had had under one roof since before the first lockdown, so it was quite unusual to be with so many people.

Anyway, after I had finished and during coffee before the staff meeting started, chap came over to me and introduced himself as a new driver who works on a Monday and Tuesday (where I work Wed, Thur and Friday)

"He said you don't remember me do you?" I said "Without appearing to be rude, should I?"

He said "You taught me to ride a bike and get me through my test in 1996 and then trained me to advanced standard a while later"

I had to apologise for not remembering him but as I said, I have trained and met many people in the intervening 25+ years and I can't remember everyone. But, I was pleased that he remembered me, I must have done something right.

Once colleagues realised that they had another motorcyclist in their ranks you could hear the groans and moans "Oh FFS another biker"

Small world though

 

[andyBeaker]

While in Pafos staying with friends we decided to walk miles and find a random restaurant for dinner that we hadn’t already used.

Sat down to find a mate who was involved in the football club I ran sitting a couple of tables away With his family. Within two minutes a chap came over and introduced himself and his family…turned out they lived four doors away from us.

 

[Jaws]

Donna ( daughter ) and Des went for a 6 month stay in Perth, Oz.. Second day there.. Oye Donna ! It was a neighbour from way back..
A week later same thing happened but this time it was an old school friend !

 

[derek kelly]

A colleague & good friend of mine was attending a Course at Askham (women’s) prison, during a coffee break a female serving his coffee said “it’s Mr Dallimore, isn’t it?” “Yes” he responded, he was racking his brains to think where she could have known him from, later he approached her & said “sorry, I don’t know where we’ve met” she responded “Wakefield” he asked “oh, were you admin?” She replied, no I was on A3 landing, you were my personal Officer, Wakefield being an all male prison.

 

[T.C]

Back in the day, as a serving copper we had to get authority and permission to go to any communist country.

Went to Bulgaria for our honeymoon. 2nd morning there having breakfast when a voice says "What are you doing here?"

Look up, and it was one of my Sgts who had just arrived from a weeks stay in Russia and was having a week in Bulgaria before going home. Transpired that the airline had lost all their luggage and had been given vouchers to go and replace them which at the time, Bulgaria was still a communist state and shopping was a very weird experience.

Anyway, 3 days after I got home and went back to work, I had to go for a debrief because of where I had been. Walked into the office and I get greeted with "Not you again?" Same Sgt going for his debrief

Many years before that, top of the Empire State building in New York and I am sat having a coffee and alongside was an old school buddy and someone I used to play football with.

 

[Malone]

I was on my way to Newhaven to a hotel for an overnight before we caught a ferry the next day. I was ‘making good progress’ on the Busa and I was greeted with a set of blues in my mirrors and requested to stop and explain

Now I’ve been stopped enough times in the past to know it’s best to let them do the talking, one to me and then t’other a little away talking to the wife. I motioned to let me take my helmet off, earplugs out, so I could listen, and then waited for the bollocking and the ticket.

all through my interrogation I was calm, above all quiet - you don’t want to annoy someone who is wanting to make his point known. Who are you, where are you going, you know the speed limit etc.etc. What do you do for a job? I told him that I sold spare parts and the company. He didn’t believe me, for some reason he was adamant I was ‘in the job’ ie that I was a copper. Maybe my appearance was at a variance to my mode of transport, but he was not having any of it that I wasn’t a copper.

Anyway the upshot of it all after realising that I wasn’t public enemy number one, and presumably my missus had also worn his mate out talking about our dogs and home and such like, I was let off with just a ticking off - face to face with a human being is SO much better than a faceless Gatso I reckon. We were allowed to go, a little late and suitably chastised, and with a “I’ll see you later” as a friendly warning.

We were onboard the ferry the next morning and I was recounting my previous night’s experience with some friends, when a voice behind me said ‘told you I’d see you again” It was the same copper that had dressed me down. There’s me wearing my Ogri T shirt reading I wasn’t going fast honest. His very next question was “are you sure you’re not a copper” to laughs from the guys who knew me. No, I promise I’m not. So that was why he’d said he’d see me later.

 

[Lee337]

We had a new girl, Sarah transfer in to my office from another one in Harlow. Her (then) boyfriend got a promotion but had to take up a post in Peterborough, so they moved. This was in 1990

Within a week, it was th annual accounts balance and as I was only a junior, I had to have someone on the next level up supervise me. She was chosen as the 'newbie' to the office. We spent the better part of 2 weeks locked in a room with a box of receipts which we had to add up, then check off every receipt with a printed list until the amount of money received in the previous 12 months matched the amount we had banked. Bearing in mind this was a local tax office, there were a lot of payments.

Needless to say, we struck up a firm friendship that has so far lasted 31 years.

About 4 years in to our friendship, Imyself and a girlfriend were invited over to dinner. When I arrived she was clearing up some photos she'd dropped & I'd recognised one of them as the reservoir overlooked by a holiday camp in Ilfracombe, where I grew up. She said that when she & her boyfriend got together, they holidayed there, found a great pub, which they'd been in a few times & showerd me another photo of the pub. I worked in that pub at the time, This was in 1983.

A couple of years later, I was talking to her mother & mentioned that I grew up in Ilfracombe, so the holiday snaps came out as they used to holiday in North Devon when Sarah was a kid. One of them was Sarah playing on Croyde beach with a 'nice young boy not much older than 12' The photo was of Sarah & me playing in the rockpools while my mother watched in the background, taken in 1972 ( I was actually 9 at the time).

Both of us remember the play date on the beach.