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Re: Poor Samaritan

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  1. Original post
    Peter Scandrett
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    Dave wrote on 19/06/2007 12:46:

    Quoted message said:

    Have you ever tried to help someone and it went terribly wrong?

    Not really (sorry). I've just done my good deed of the day. I cycled
    from here to the Lowry and met a young lad (aged 9ish?) on the new white
    bridge over the Quays who asked me if I had a pump as I went past.

    I stopped, as I do; he said he'd had a puncture but fixed it but it was
    clear that as I pumped air in you could hear the air coming out again;
    he said he'd cycled over some glass (not difficult in Manchester). To
    cut a long story short, it looked fairly easy to glue a patch on so I
    did (going with the other three patches on his inner tube!) and we
    pumped up both his tyres and away he went.

    A few minutes later as I was parking, he and his dad rode up to me at
    the stands. His dad was most appreciative - he'd tried to pump it up,
    but his pump broke, so he'd gone off to get a new one but I got to the
    lad before he returned. He and his son were both local and they were
    both thanking me all the time for sorting it out. It gave me a warm
    feeling, not only to have helped them but also that they'd been out on
    their bike together. It only occurred to me afterwards that I thought
    the lad should have been in school :-)

    I'm not an expert at bike maintenance myself but it was nice to have
    been able to help.

    Peter

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  2. David Hansen
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    On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:31:59 +0100 someone who may be Peter
    Scandrett <[email hidden]> wrote this:-

    Quoted message said:

    It only occurred to me afterwards that I thought
    the lad should have been in school :-)

    They are fairly long periods of holidays throughout the year.

    --
    David Hansen, Edinburgh
    I will *always* explain revoked encryption keys, unless RIP prevents me
    http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2000/00023--e.htm#54

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  3. Danny Colyer
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    David Hansen said:

    On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:31:59 +0100 someone who may be Peter
    Scandrett <[email hidden]> wrote this:-

    Quoted message said:

    It only occurred to me afterwards that I thought
    the lad should have been in school :-)

    They are fairly long periods of holidays throughout the year.

    Although most schools are currently between periods of holiday.

    It's also possible, of course, that the youngster was home-schooled.

    --
    Danny Colyer <URL:http://www.colyer.plus.com/danny/>
    Reply address is valid, but that on my website is checked more often
    "Daddy, put that down. Daddy, put that down. Daddy, put that down.
    Daddy, why did you put that down?" - Charlie Colyer, age 2

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  4. Ekul Namsob
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    David Hansen said:

    On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:31:59 +0100 someone who may be Peter
    Scandrett <[email hidden]> wrote this:-

    Quoted message said:

    It only occurred to me afterwards that I thought
    the lad should have been in school :-)

    They are fairly long periods of holidays throughout the year.

    The people were local to Greater Manchester, an area which is not
    currently on school holidays.

    Cheers,
    Luke

    --
    Red Rose Ramblings, the diary of an Essex boy in
    exile in Lancashire <http://www.shrimper.org.uk>

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  5. Matthew Haigh
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    David Hansen said:

    On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:31:59 +0100 someone who may be Peter
    Scandrett <[email hidden]> wrote this:-

    Quoted message said:

    It only occurred to me afterwards that I thought
    the lad should have been in school :-)

    They are fairly long periods of holidays throughout the year.

    And nowadays many (all? some?) schools have "inset days", which are
    basically staff training days during term time, so the kids at that
    school all have a day off that doesn't correspond to a traditional
    holiday. I've taken my lad out for a day on the bikes when to an
    observer it would appear he should have been in school.

    Matt

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