Sale agreed ?

 I came across this the other day. An elderly couple were selling the family home and with the estate agent they agreed a price.

Then a man knocked on the door and offered them €40,000 more than the price they had agreed to. 

It gets better. 

The estate agent said that once they accepted an offer they could not go back on it.

The solicitor said that until the final sale agreement is signed it is still negotiable.

Funny thing is that the new buyer had made the higher offer before the lower offer was accepted !!!!

Perhaps the golf buddy of the estate agent was going to make a killing? 

The estate agent might be looking for a new job. 

I worked in a pub a good few years ago and the publican had 2 other pubs. One pub was not bringing in less money it should have. Peter sent me down to look and I could see nothing wrong either.

So Peter employed a private eye to work there for 2 weeks as a barman. After that time he reported to Peter the bar owner and said how he had watched him and during the busy time with the rugby he was ringing up everything in the three tills....Peter threw up his hands,,We only have 2 cash registers the third one was the rogue barmans 

Our local sweet shop used to short change the kids and he got away with it for ages. One day my lads were buying sweets and a kid called Micheal Stowe was with them. When the sweets were laid out and the cost was added up, the shopkeeper said no you have not enough money and went to put some sweets back. Micheal as quick as a flash added it up in his head and told the shopkeeper that in fact he had to pay back  3p change.

I often think of that kid, he was killed off his bicycle a couple of years later. God bless him. 

Life goes on and today in the mailbox there was a doomsday book. I never saw the likes since the Cuban missile crisis. Have enough water in the house, make sure that you have enough fuel etc.etc.Emergency numbers. I was lucky that I had taken my medication.

You know people in Ireland are blessed to have people coming here to work and improve their situation.

I met a wonderful girl from Ukraine the other day, bright and attentive. I have no doubt in my mind that when she grows up she will become a doctor or a lawyer one day. 

Please God send peace to those people.

WE on the other hand had to go overseas in our droves when I was young. I remember being in Liverpool and I had run out of Sterling. The barman laughed and took the Irish coins off me. "This is the capital of Ireland lad" 

In New York or Boston you would go to an Irish bar and the barman would point you to good work.

I don't know but perhaps I will stop while I can. 

Well done Bono and the lads.

50 years ago 4 lads from Mount Temple school got together and formed a band. 

50 years later they are still together and U2 carries on.

It is no mean feat to still be packing out stadiums and they are bringing out a new CD (or whatever they call them now)

So a big hands up for U2 

Others, the sky falls on them

 We had a man over to give us a price on some building work.

After looking at what was needed to be done we adjourned for tea. 

The conversation was formal and he had told us that his brother had died of cancer in the summer. 

Then he asked me how David is getting on in the taxi. I said that he is holding on in there.

Then he told me a story which I will remember until the day I die. The family lived in London. Three brothers and his father had died a few years earlier.

So 2 boys living at home and the mother. One night the mother decided to visit an old friend a few miles away and she went over on the bus, they had no car as London is well connected for transport.

When the conversation finished  the buses had stopped running, so she hailed a taxi on the street and gave her destination. The taxi was heading in the opposite direction so he made a U turn.

He made a U turn without looking and a Range Rover doing over 60 MPH rammed into the back of the taxi. The impact was so hard that his mother finished up in the boot of the car with a broken neck.   

From her purse the police found her address and brought the 2 brothers into the police station. The body was taken away to the mortuary and the brothers stood on the road waiting for a taxi.

Who was there as well? The taxi driver. He spoke to them and suggested that they share the taxi as they were going in the same direction. 

A taxi arrived and a couple of miles down the road the taxi driver got out first. No "Here is a couple of bob for the taxi fare,"  Not even a sorry for the accident. He just got out and walked away.

The insurance company refused to pay. 

They just said that she was a widow with no debts so there was nothing to pay.

Later they agreed to pay the cost of the funeral which was around £6,500 at the time. 

You would fight it but the big boys have the power.

I am rich, I own  my house and my car. I can take a holiday and my health is great.

Count your blessings not your troubles 

Good night Sleep well 

 

 

I'm BACK

 Boys and girls and bots I have returned from Santorini in Greece.

We were there 45 years ago as a young married couple. 

We have all changed with the passing of time.

Its great to get away once in a while.

So I will retire for the night and update with a story about a taxi driver in London. 

somwonw came in

 Then I got cut off.

As I was saying. there was a hell of a crash. 5 guys driving down the motorway the wrong way. They were filming it to TivTock. 3 people going to a wedding in the UK were hit. Absolute carnage. The very thought that they were broadcasting this on the internet is beyond belief.

In the UK there was a crash killing 3 police officers,,,, again coming down the motorway the wrong way.

A equal to that was that one of the rogue car occupants had their house burned down.

Glen Hansard died from a fall from his motorcycle. 

Today the news came in that Dolly Parton had died.

She wrote more than 1,000 songs I heard it on the radio.

Loads of good vibes about her,

She was in Ventry Co.Kerry and someone noticed that she was a bit cold. Someone put a shawl over her shoulders and she jumped up saying. "Thats the first time a man has tried to put clothes on me."

 

God bless you all 

Are you a first timer?

 Well if you are new here and want to read the book go to Amazon and put in "The steering wheel university by Paul Malone" You can also download it to your Kindle.

In the story before I referred to police inaction. A few days ago they wrote and thanked me. Its a start.

Well ! There was a huge sex scandal in Rotherham in the UK a few years ago. I was really taken aback in that it was so blatant , nothing it seemed was done to unravel the mystery of missing children. I bought at least 5 books at the time written by the victims to help me to understand what happened.

the books were called Just a child, Violated, any girl a secret slave and please let me go. One thing that ran through the books is the lack of action from the police at any time. But time passes and it has now come to light that there was  large number of police who were involved. Hence the inaction. 

Corruption is very difficult to deal with. Once in Havana Cuba I was in a souvenir shop and as I walked up to the cash register a police man walked over in front of me, the teller had already counted out some money and he gave it to him. As quick as a flash I tipped him on the shoulder and said "Reciept" He was really stunned and he looked at me then he walked out. Signor that was so stupid. He thought that you tapping him on the shoulder was a trap. You are so lucky, he would normally have taken out his baton and later locked you up for at least a month. Missing your flight home would be the least of your worries.

The music in Cuba, great food and beautiful women plus wonderful vintage cars all go to give you a wonderful holiday, It was our belated honeymoon.

There was a hell of a crash over here. 5 young men were  

Do your job and save a life.

 My middle son has 3 kids and he lives in Northern Ireland.

He has 3 kids and we try to drive up to see them as often as we can.

Well I saw this thing happen twice and decided to do something about it.

A truck was driving along with a very high load. The load was of pieces of metal chopped up and the load was stacked right to the edge of the container.There was a net at the front of each load but the nets were not deployed.

This was spotted again on another trip as well.  Imagine if a flat piece of metal that had another bit the size of a hammer resting on it and the bar got launched at 60 MPH hitting the windscreen  of a car coming the other way.The other car is doing 8o MPH so we have an impact of  140 MPH.

So I wrote !!!! no reply. I wrote again, still no reply.

I hope I don't have to write to say "I told you so" 

It reminds my of the East wall rd. There was a road Alfie Byrne rd going off to the right which became a road of priority.

The other road was very badly marked and when I wrote I was told that any driver who passed the yield sign would not know the rules of the road. The crash happened and I sent a copy of their reply back.

All this anxiety goes back to when I got my first driving license and drove my daddy up to   Traynors scrap yard in county Armagh. When Mr Traynor heard I had my first trip on my license.

He took me through the wrecks, bent steering wheels, blood and hair on the windscreens, to cut a long story short he brought me over to a good looking car, no one ever wants to see this car again.

It turned out that they were driving along and someone was holding a baby on the back seat. They lost control of the car the wonderful baby was killed.

No one ever wants to see that car again. 

Years later his grandson took me out the back to see a yellow sports car. This car is for shredding as well. We don't know what he was doing but he turned the car over and his head was cut clean off.

Police inaction is a curse. I reported a girl who was mentally handicapped being sexually abused. My complaints went right up to the Garda commissioner. All I got was unless we caught the person there was nothing we could do. I you don't look you will not see anything.

Then a friend of mine was dropping off some people from the airport when a little boy ran up to him. Please mister help me. Bring me back to my mother and father please. Just then a Romanian man ran over and scooped him up. He OK he like this, he play games!The boy had blonde hair and spoke perfect English and the "Father" had very little English and a dark complexion.

John went to the Garda and they said "Unless we get a missing persons report there is nothing we can do"But they would not look. 

 So we decided to go back and kidnap the young lad, After a while there  one of the neighbors told us that the family had moved away, suddenly.

To this day we believe that he was kidnapped. 

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Big questions.

 As we went along I liked to have a bit of fun and ask trivial questions.

Is a Slug a homeless Snail ?

Why is a banana like a politician ?

Well you will never find a straight one. 

How do you know when a politician is lying? 

His lips are moving.

Is a cauliflower a cabbage that went to collage and he got a bigger brain ?

And lastly the man who invented the flat pack and developed it into Ikea.

His name was Ingvar Kampard  from Sweden.

The Swedish government as a  reward elected him to head department of industry and commerce.

But alas he never took up his post.

Do you know why?

You see,he could not assemble his cabinet.

Have a good day. 

 

You know karma is a wonderful thing.

I had a very abusive couple going to the airport one Sunday.

Why are you going this way?

Drive faster or we will miss our flight.

Even the choice of being thrown out did not cool them down.

At  the airport they were still cussing away. 

Our whole day has been fucked up thanks to you.

My day was fucked up when I got up and found that the clocks had changed.

I will never forget the change

"Wats ya takin about ya feckin moron ?"

The clocks went forward an hour last night !!

The dawning of reality was spectacular.

I also got the chance to say the words.

Who's the moron now?