Originally Posted by stevenglish

You bloody ingrate, my first skateboard was a floorboard with 2 halves of a skate screwed to it, though I did have a helmet, a Tarmac hard hat. Couldn't turn corners on it

Originally Posted by MiekeNL

That brought a tear to my eye Soapy and I am sure your mother never gave it another thought! Thats the beauty about women we always look on the bright side

Originally Posted by moneypenny20

Even when we have a 'soapy' as a child.

Originally Posted by eddie007

ditto

and didnt I get lucky? I have 4 of the little buggers

Originally Posted by soapy©

Its funny how some things get to you though
I know my brothers and sisters did a lot worse
I dont think it ever would have bothered me if she was angry
But the thought that she would be disappointed struck more fear in me

I wonder when the last
If you could go back in time thread was?
I wonder what i added to that ?
Hmmmm

Originally Posted by papilon

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/pol...011-1lhy9.html

Typical hypocrisy. Australian media should look a bit closer to home.

Originally Posted by MiekeNL

The country can do no right eh mate

Originally Posted by MiekeNL

The country can do no right eh mate

Originally Posted by papilon

Your words not mine. I was just pointing out that up to 40 Indonesian kids have been in jail in Australia at anyone time in the past year. That's not to mention the hundred's of asylum seeker kids who have been in detention.

Originally Posted by Grayling

Not in this case....it is hypocritical

Originally Posted by MiekeNL

Greenies, the worst terrorists in the world

Originally Posted by soapy©

lmao. i might.

its daft really
as i said my mother had ten kids
somehow both my parents managed to make us all feel loved and didnt favour anyone more than the other, and we felt that too
at christmas and birthdays they managed to make sure we all got great things
dad worked three jobs and mum worked 2
she worked as a furrier for her brother during the day, then as a cook for a local hotel at night, then would sit to all hours in the morning making fur coats for people who could afford them. she didnt even have one herself.
at christmas mum and dad would go without to make sure we all had something
mums only thing was that her boss at the hotel she worked in gave her a voucher to spend on herself each year.

you know where this is going dont ya lol

at 15 skateboards came out, remember they plastic things?
i wanted one and woke up on christmas day to see one all wrapped up for me. i was the happiest guy alive
ran out the door and shouted up to my pals, who all got boards that year
when the came out they all had helmets and padding and i didnt

the next day i started on her, whinging and moaning that i looked like the odd one out.
mum could never have had that so she took her voucher and spent it on a helmet and kneepads that i wore about twice
i have made it up to her a thousand times, but it still gets to me.
how could i have been such a selfish little shite?

it would never have bothered me had it been dad, but mum never ever bought herself anything. if i could go back in time i would kick the shit out of myself.

told you it was nothing really
but i bet my mother was really disappointed in me that day and wondered where she went wrong having a son who only thought about himself.

Originally Posted by papilon

Don't get your cloggs in a twist dutchie...