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View Forest Hillbilly's Profile Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 17 Aug 18 6.12pm Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

Not talking about egocentrics, or people up their own @55holes.

I'll start.
Mr Ken Tucky, a lorry driver from Birmingham. I worked with him for a day at a job near Stansted in the late 1990's. Obviously he had changed his name via deed-poll because he went on holiday a few years prior, to America, and really liked the blue grass state.
Told me he had Ferrari's and Maserati's at home, but he worked as a lorry driver to stop himself getting bored.
Very engaging chap to talk to, and I had no reason to disbelieve him.
Rang his company a month later to hire the chap again, but he had left and gone to work for Argos in Birmingham.
Apparently he was one of the heirs to the Bourneville company and everything he told me was true.
nutter

 


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View Dubai Eagle's Profile Dubai Eagle Flag 17 Aug 18 6.34pm Send a Private Message to Dubai Eagle Add Dubai Eagle as a friend

I used to stay in the Croydon Aerodrome hotel when back in the UK visiting family, one evening in the bar around 7 pm an old guy came in with his daughter, she looked about 65 so god knows how old he was, he was unsteady on his feet so I offered him a stool next to me & we started chatting, my god what an interesting guy, we chatted for a while & just before parting he told me a story about a time that he was playing golf with Douglas Bader, one of the party was complaining about the morning dew making his feet wet, and apparently Douglas Bader quipped, "that must be absolutely awful for you" obviously this took place after he had lost his legs, I can honestly say it isn't often that you meet someone & feel the richer for having had a conversation with them, but for sure with this guy I absolutely did.

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 17 Aug 18 8.31pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Florida about 30 years ago.

This little old lady teamed up with me and my dad around the golf course. She only used 1 club for everything and was scoring better than me (much to my annoyance).

At the end of the round she asked us to see her car, It was a new American model but she had painted eyelashes around the headlights and a lipstick mouth around the bonnet and grill. She didn't care that people thought she had ruined the paintwork. "It's the last car I will own and the kids in town love it and everybody talks to me."

Good on her, eccentric but also smart, I doubt she was ever lonely after that.

 


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View Harpo's Profile Harpo Flag Oxfordshire 17 Aug 18 11.06pm Send a Private Message to Harpo Add Harpo as a friend

Nuclear physicists abound in this part of the world, and I was in conversation with one when the subject turned to smoke alarms.

'We don't need a smoke alarm, we don't smoke'.
No amount of logic would persuade him that tobacco was not the only source of smoke.

Eccentric? Probably not. Just sh!t for brains.

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View Forest Hillbilly's Profile Forest Hillbilly Flag in a hidey-hole 18 Aug 18 6.52pm Send a Private Message to Forest Hillbilly Add Forest Hillbilly as a friend

I have a friend in Beckenham in his 80's. Since he stopped work 3 years ago, he has returned to his hobbies of :

* Restoring his 1933 Rolls Royce (bits of which are in the garage, living room and kitchen)
* Installing a model steam train track in his back garden, of which a spur goes into his sun lounge for maintenance purposes.
* A single-seat aeroplane in his shed, which I understand he may be resigned to never re-building.

 


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