Scorn Not [Luke Kelly] Lyrics

                  One day 

 

A friend of mine who is a comedian was in Manchester on a job and they had an evening off and they went to see the Dubliners, There was 2 drunken Irishmen in the front row and Luke Kelly said that he was going to sing a song that has never been sung in public before. 

But ladies and gentlemen we will not be singing until these 2 drunks are removed.

20 minutes later Luke sang Scorn not his simplicity.

After the song was finished the audience were stunned and 15 minutes of silence followed followed by a huge round of applause like you never heard before.

 

Things happen when you are driving along and this thing will stay with me until I die.

 I never got even near to a solution.

Coming up the hill to turn left on to St.Johns rd and Heuston station. There was a minder on my left with a mentally handicapped girl beside him. He looked at me and then put his right arm over her right shoulder and fondled her breast. I changed direction and went straight ahead and back around. They were heading into the John Of Gods compound and I went in. There was hundreds of minders and patients going around and I looked for the pervert. Then I asked to speak with the person in charge. One lady told me that there was no one in charge, so I had to go. Thinking about it now I should have said that there was a dead body lying near the gate.

I went to all the local Garda stations and I got the reply that they would have to see him do it before they would act. There was 2 other facilities who deal with mentally handicapped people and I got no reply.

I wrote to the Garda commissioner twice and got the same story, would you not just come and look was the last contact I had with the boys in blue. 

There was a big place in Palmerstown which later had to close down when a huge expose of sexual misconduct came to light. 

I pray to my god that things worked out for her in the end. 

Wilbenton

 Came back to the house from a trip to Aldi when I heard a strong grunting noise from 2 women.

Its a porn movie I thought ! No just 2 women playing tennis. 

 My mind is going back to something that happened around this time of year, though it was many years ago. 

There was an elderly neighbor who had a telephone system given to her by her grandson. It was fantastic 2 handsets you could ring downstairs if you were upstairs and visa versa. So far so good, she didn't understand that you had to charge both handsets upstairs at night and then after around a year the batteries were showing wear and tear so I bought 8 new rechargeable batteries for around £10. It was working great until the grandson blew up saying that I had overcharged her and he told me to take them back and give his gran back her money. Around a week later they were sitting downstairs when the minder smelled smoke and went upstairs to take a look. There in the bedroom the phone had gone on fire, she scooped it up and threw it into the toilet. Imagine if that had happened when she was asleep.

As I had tried to tell her you must use rechargeable batteries end of story. 

12th July coming

 So here we are with the 12th of July around the corner, with drum and fife and bagpipes the Orange order   will start to march in support of King Billy.

So there I was aged 17 and I drove my father up to a scrap yard in Northern Ireland. 

My first big trip. 

When we arrived my father told Mr Traynor  that this was my first solo trip.

What followed has remained with me to this day, He got someone to look after my dad while he showed me the destruction of lives owing to car crashes. Bent steering wheels, Hair on the windscreen, teeth stuck into the dashboard. Your knees shoot forward and they hit this point here breaking both your legs.

There were no seat belts  back then,

You see this car here? We are stripping the wheels gearbox and engine, then this car will be shredded.

It doesn't seem to be that badly damaged I said. He reached under the drivers seat and pulled out a child's bootee. Look at the blood on the roof liner, Whatever happened the car tumbled over and a beautiful baby was killed. 

No one wants to ever see that car again.   

I didn't do this to frighten you BUT some day you might think I know I am late BUT better late than sorry.

Years later I told that story to his grandson and he told me that his grandfather had saved countless lives with the tours of the wrecks. Then he then took me over to see a sports car. 

Driver dead car now to be shredded. 

So to the present.

Donegal is a place where there are terrible crashes. 

Mother Natalie McLaughlin a nurse and her wonderful 6 year old daughter Ella were killed in a car crash in Donegal . Such a waste of wonderful life

SLOW DOWN BOYS AND GIRLS 

New car? Just walk into the office

 As I was driving along with a passenger in the taxi a brand new car drove past and I said wow!

The guy beside me opened up his laptop and an a few minutes he had the cars details. "Its leased from a certain date  and he is paying X per month, and that is a lot of money.

Going back to when I was 20 I bought a new car and borrowed £700 over 3 years at 4%. my dad asked to see the loan details and he asked me if I had ever paid attention when I went to school ?

What the BANK did was to take the £700 and add 3 years interest and divide it by 36. So what I said.

When you got the money you have not accumulated 3 years interest. 

When you make a payment you do not owe £700.

Do you see it now? 

I went back to the bank and the manager came out and he really thought he could talk me down. Until I said that I would take it up with the media. So I then got my first term loan.

Did you notice all the new cars around? I asked Mr.Google and he says that over 90% of new cars are bought on finance. 

Chuck Feeney told me to burn my credit cards and use debit cards instead. Now you cannot spend money you don't have.

I once helped a girl move apartment and I noticed  a credit card statement with a  e2,000 balance on it unpaid. I brought it up as we moved out and she said its only 3%.. No No its 3% per month. She checked later and she told me that she had been blinded by the figures.She worked in a bank.

If your parents are alive check up on their finances, Spry finance give loans to the elderly and  they will then have rights to your parents estate. So check up on them.

 

 

Suddenly I was cut off

 Long time no see 

I really don't know what happened. 

Like Alice I went through the looking glass and my world took on a different reality.

I did buy a second hand computer when my old one died suddenly and that might be a clue as to how I lost the link to the blog.

In the end I did manage to find my way back, but another strange thing happened with the book.

I got an email to say that the author had stolen the book from Amazon "AS IT HAD BEEN STORED IN AN INSECURE LOCATION" and there was nothing I could do about it. They also said that they had sold the ideas from two of the chapters to a film company.

Nice of him to let me know.

So I contacted that big river in Brazil called Amazon 4 times no reply.

The book was not on sale and strange to say when my son went to look at the email it was a burner, it had vanished. Time passed and one day Amazon contacted me and they told me that I had written something bad in an earlier publication. I said go to look it up and get back to me.

They did and it had been a mistake and just like that it was back on the market, no apology.

"The steering wheel university" By Paul Malone is back on sale.

The author drove a million miles and met thousands of people along the way and they educated him,