Yes I am very happy
...thats what I was trying to say
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I really live a very ordinary life really but it sounds different when you see it in print but most folk go thru similar things I feel
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And I really look ordinary because the beard is gone and the hair is not as long as it was
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I even put on a suit and went out with my Son on a listing presentation..and that was funny cause I tend to chat a bit and relate stories to people in my real life whereas here I try to be brief
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I was telling them what I had been doing for the last ten odd years and telling a few yarns and the funny thing was the lady interupted me to ask what they had to do to get the house on the market
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many agents have to sortta talk owners into listing and they explain this and that...usually crap really
...all the things their agency will do..they are going to do so much ....and the people expect thousands thru the home after such a presentation... Well I did not cover anything as to marketing as I said she interupted me to say they wanted to sell with us....anyways my Son got the listing and he really did not have to say anything about marketing or how he would get it sold
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I think people feel important if you talk to them and listen to them... I only talk until they feel relaxed enough to talk to me as a friend sort of...
Moving home is a big thing for folk who have been in a home from the time their kids were babies up to the time those kids move out and have their own babies... and so they feel alone in the house and cant see why they need a big house anymore.
I moved around so much when I was a kid because of my fathers work ..you only got promotions if you would move to some place that you never would bother with if not for the job promotion...
thats why I became a good fighter...because each new town some fool kid would think he had someone he could boss around... so in the end I used to turn up at school on my first day and figure who was top dog and chalenge him.
After that no one would bother me and would want to be my friend
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Funny the last time ..2nd year at high school.. I figured who it was before school went in and we agreed to meet after school... but when I got to the place he agree there were four other kids who wanted to have him as well ..the word got around because I stood up to him...now one had called him out till then...he was a bully and they always go to water
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My grandfather taught me to box and the police boys club taught me judo...but my grandfather told me "if I find you have started a fight you will get a flogging..if you are in a fight and lose it you will get a worse flogging"...
so I had to wait until the other boy in the fight threw the first punches and then I was entitled to clean him up
...but the point I was trying to make I had to have a real good defence so they could not hit me in that first flurry and I could tell grandfather they threw the first punches
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ANd how is this for irony... for those who may enjoy my yarns I will tell this story...
I lecture mates, who are always getting into fights, that they dont realise it but you can hit someone they fall down and crack their scull and then you can be in real trouble ..thats a fact most forget.........anyways I was at a new year party..2000 sorrta a big one... this guy for no reason walked up to a mates car and smashed the windscreen... (Geoff this was at my bother in laws up Mudflat Road and the guy who smashed the windscreen was Andy the harp player) anyways I went to talk to him and ask what was the matter
.... I could see he was wired and easily slipped his king hit (cause I put my chin out to give him something to swing at
) anyways
I shaped up and started after him..he though I was going to cream him and he was backing away backing away and he tripped
went over backwards and smashed his head
... I did not realise he was hurt and used the oppertunity to sit on his chest and point out that he was behaving badly and he would have to buy a new windscreen
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BUT and this is the point of it... I stayed out of town for about a month to give him time to repent.....Well when I got into town people were coming up to me.."I hear you beat Andy to a pulp" " I heard you had him by the ancles dangling over the cliff" etc etc... it was like they were talking about something that I was not present at ...the facts were so distorted...I did not hit him he fell before I could line him up...true I had no sckin missing and if I had hit him ..well you cut your knuckles on their teeth and it hurts for days after..so I would know and I was not drunk or dizzy from smoke from the fire
Now that was bad enough but I ran into his missus in Tenterfield about three months after the event.
"Hows Andy" I asked "He is OK" she said nice as..."Lucky I did not hit him" I said trying to move past the incident....
WOW off she went
.... "You hit him.. you beat him like he was a side of beef ...over and over" ...and burst into tears and ran off..... I did not get close enough to hit him he fell before I could nail him.....
So eye wintess reports are not worth zip and if he had died I reckon I would have been facing a murder charge at worst or a manslaughter charge at best......
So boys and girls do not fight and do not rely on eyewitnesses ....
alex
...the 300d went down shortly after
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and I let him put a van on my block so he would have a home).
