Off Topic The Burly Arms

I don't know mate. I wasn't old enough to drive but I remember some girl I was trying to impress as a 12 year old was smitten when my old man came to pick us up in his Montego

Looking back, it was a piece of **** (the car not the girl) full of horrible beige plastic and beige fabric seats.

 

I expect in decades to come, people will look at todays cars in the same way. Well we know petrol models will no longer be made for starters, the future is quite sad when you think about it with automated vehicles as well, there was a certain joy when you was young in being a petrol head. These days the components go before the bodywork. The Montego like most vehicles of that time had massive problems with the wheel arches going. I think stuff like the Zephyr's and Zodiac's you would end up with a hole in the floor, good ole Fred Flintstone throw backs.

 

I'm back at Bath University, but the place doesn't seem the same without Chief.

 

I saw someone on an electric moterbike looking like a scrambler. ****ing thing was doing about 40 and almost silent, it was the odd sound of it that caught my attention.

 

As long as it is emitting some sound, this is another worry with the changes. I remember visiting a small town in Italy (I had a friend that lived there) I heard this sound of what sounded like a milk float, if you ever remember the old battery models, it turned out it was the local electric mini bus, the sound was a throw back to my younger days.

 

Tell us another story, grandpa.

 

You do one mate they're much better

 

My first boss had an MG Montego Turbo and drove it like he’d stolen it. It went like hot snot, or at least it felt like it back in the day.

 

Listen up catweazle, don't deny remembering the old milk floats...

 

What like when he was in a band and all the old blue rinse brigade turned up....oh hang on a minute, he's still in that band and their still turning up.

 

getting up at 4.30 in the morning before going to school to deliver milk.

 

Nah mate not me, mine was a paper round, not in the morning though, fook that!

 

I did the papers also, obviously not at the same time, but i did both mornings and evenings.

The owner never did realise why i was so eger to start so earlym get there as he arrived, had to go through the stock room as the papers were delivered round the back through a hatch into a storage building.

Anyway each trip through the stockroom meant another sleeve off tag, out the back, over the wall.

Get paper ready, see ya tonight mate, round the back, pick up tabs, flog the at school.

 

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Back tomorrow dude, I'm staying in't quads.

Beer?

 

i hit the wrong button.

 

HIAG when he reads the above.

 

So are you saying I'm Norm ffs?

 

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Even more of an insult to be fair.