My good deed for the day.

[Simon Mason]

Last year I fished out this old racer from the Humber and
restored it to its former glory.

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page470.htm

This prompted a bloke from the other side of the city to
e-mail me, misty eyed as he had had one as a teenager and
would I sell it. Since acquiring a new road bike recently,
it is unlikely I will ever ride it again, so I asked him if
he wanted it for nowt. Just dropped it off at his house and
he was dead chuffed - and would I take a few cans of beer
in exchange.

Sure I said and he handed me six cans of John Smiths Extra
Smooth! Didn't have the heart to tell the bloke that as a
card carrying member of CAMRA, I wouldn't clean my driveway
with the stuff and instead took it away with good grace :-)

Our lass was going mad at me saying I should have got money
for it. She doesn't understand that sometimes you get more
pleasure out of doing things for sheer philanthropic
reasons. She said who did I think I was, Jesus, going around
to strange houses giving stuff away? Mental joy outweighs
monetary gain any day - that said, he did offer me 30 quid a
while ago ;-) Would have bought me a new lock to counter the
security goons at work.

--
Simon Mason Anlaby East Yorkshire. 53°44'N 0°26'W
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net (http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/)

[Andy]

"Simon Mason" <simon@simonmason.karoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:jZecnRR87_zZOh_dSa8jmw@karoo.co.uk...
> Last year I fished out this old racer from the Humber and
> restored it to
its
> former glory.
>
> http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page470.htm
>
> This prompted a bloke from the other side of the city to
> e-mail me, misty eyed as he had had one as a teenager and
> would I sell it. Since acquiring
a
> new road bike recently, it is unlikely I will ever ride it
> again, so I
asked
> him if he wanted it for nowt. Just dropped it off at his
> house and he was dead chuffed - and would I take a few
> cans of beer in exchange.
>
> Sure I said and he handed me six cans of John Smiths Extra
> Smooth! Didn't have the heart to tell the bloke that as a
> card carrying member of CAMRA,
I
> wouldn't clean my driveway with the stuff and instead took
> it away with
good
> grace :-)
>
> Our lass was going mad at me saying I should have got
> money for it. She doesn't understand that sometimes you
> get more pleasure out of doing
things
> for sheer philanthropic reasons. She said who did I
> think I was, Jesus, going around to strange houses
> giving stuff away? Mental joy outweighs monetary gain
> any day - that said, he did offer me 30 quid a while ago
> ;-) Would have bought me a new lock to counter the
> security goons at work.
>

Good karma, well done.

Same thing has happened to me on the beer front! Did a
favour for a mate and received six cans of John Smiths in
payment - still in a cupboard somewhere, well past sell
by date now!

[Danny Colyer]

Andy wrote:
> Same thing has happened to me on the beer front! Did a
> favour for a mate and received six cans of John Smiths in
> payment - still in a cupboard somewhere, well past sell by
> date now!

You need to take it to a party and dump it. One friend of
mine finally threw away a multipack of Carling or Carlsberg
or some such that had been doing the rounds at family
parties for years. When his brother dumped it on him, it was
about 7 years past the best before.

I managed to get rid of a load of Stella by finding a
colleague who drinks the stuff.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/
Why I like OE6 - http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/misc/oe6.html
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

[Mark Thompson]

> I managed to get rid of a load of Stella by finding a
> colleague who drinks the stuff.

Pour it into those funny little 250ml 'stubs'. For some
bizarre reason they make the lager taste ok. Drinking it at
room temperature helps to bring out the flavour (what there
is of it) as well.

[Keith Willoughb]

Danny Colyer wrote:

> Andy wrote:
>> Same thing has happened to me on the beer front! Did a
>> favour for a mate and received six cans of John Smiths in
>> payment - still in a cupboard somewhere, well past sell
>> by date now!
>
> You need to take it to a party and dump it. One friend of
> mine finally threw away a multipack of Carling or
> Carlsberg or some such that had been doing the rounds at
> family parties for years. When his brother dumped it on
> him, it was about 7 years past the best before.
>
> I managed to get rid of a load of Stella by finding a
> colleague who drinks the stuff.

Jeez. Don't you lot know any teenagers?

--
Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/ I'm feeling kind
of Limehouse Chinese Laundry blues

[Danny Colyer]

I wrote:
> > I managed to get rid of a load of Stella by finding a
> > colleague who drinks the stuff.

and Keith Willoughby wrote:
> Jeez. Don't you lot know any teenagers?

The colleague in question is only 20, so near enough :-)

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my reply address)
http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/
Why I like OE6 - http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/misc/oe6.html
"He who dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

[Sprite]

"Keith Willoughby" <keith@flat222.org> wrote in message
news:873c70znir.fsf@flat222.dyndns.org...
> Danny Colyer wrote:
>
> > Andy wrote:
> >> Same thing has happened to me on the beer front! Did a
> >> favour for a mate and received six cans of John Smiths
> >> in payment - still in a cupboard somewhere, well past
> >> sell by date now!
> >
> > You need to take it to a party and dump it. One friend
> > of mine finally threw away a multipack of Carling or
> > Carlsberg or some such that had been doing the rounds at
> > family parties for years. When his brother dumped it on
> > him, it was about 7 years past the best before.
> >
> > I managed to get rid of a load of Stella by finding a
> > colleague who drinks the stuff.
>
> Jeez. Don't you lot know any teenagers?
>
> --

As an 18 year old myself (albeit one who doesn't drink) I
can support the fact that teenagers that like alcohol won't
turn their nose up at anything. At all.

Drives me mad to be honest - drinking just because they can
rather than want to really, don't see the point...

--
Sue

[Paul]

In article <c61el7$6utri$1@ID-181637.news.uni-berlin.de>,
sue.kitchen@ntlworld.com says...
> As an 18 year old myself (albeit one who doesn't drink) I
> can support the fact that teenagers that like alcohol
> won't turn their nose up at anything. At all.
>
> Drives me mad to be honest - drinking just because they
> can rather than want to really, don't see the point...
>
>
My eldest suffered her first real hangover this week, on
shooters of balieys, vodka and stella! but the thing that
really upset her was the info her friends gave her about
what she got upto while drunk, it was all in public though,
so not two much for a farther to worry about (I hope!) He
was 21, and if I ever catch up with him...;( She's 16yo btw.
As a father, I don't condon such carrings on, but one has to
be realistic, and she was with friends in one of thier
houses, so it was a *safer* environment than some I've been
drunk in. She's currently off alcohol :)
--
.paul

If at first you don't succeed... Skydiving is probably not
the sport for you.