What little angels you were! I'm 39 and may have made a similar remark with a smile on my face, a bit of leg pulling thats all. If they just leave at a bit of cheek and go no further whats the harm? If you'd have offered him a ride on the back you'd have made his week (Ibet thats what he really wanted for you to prove to him how good the bike was). Chill out and be thankfull that kids find you approachable.
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you are only upset cos you know he is right, It is rubbish.
Thats a legpull BTW, which is all your teen youth was doing probably - experimenting with the sarcastic and ironic aspects of humour .Its just at that age they are rubbish at it.
As suggested, had you thrown him on the back and scraped his knees round the bends, he would be telling his mates it was the dogs dangly bits for the next 6 months
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Yeh, I see what you mean.
I think its great that I am seen as approachable.
I think my problem is after work, I don't really have a great sense of humour...I work in a serious place where conversation is a rarity...in fact it is extinct.
But anyway, I will take the happy pill and have a laugh!
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Bring back conscription thats what I say and at 3 years old for 20 years.
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what ever you do happy pills or anything do resist the urge when he says giss a go mister cos it will END in tears when he comes back round the corner with only the handlebars wrapped round his neck ;-)
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Anyway, to cut a long story short I ride a CG125 motorcyle, and one of the little kids mentioned that he thought it was rubbish.
Saying it was rubbish - I would have taken with a pinch of salt, I personally wouldn't have said that to someone when I was 13 though. I thought you were going to say one of the kids tried to nick your bike!
I despair at the attitude of some teenagers today. A few weeks ago I was driving into town on a Saturday afternoon on quiet roads, following another car at low speed due to speed bumps. The car in front then had to slow almost to a stop because 3 teenagers were sauntering across the road, deliberately holding us up. The driver in front must have given them a funny look or a shake of the head, because as he passed, one of the kids banged his fist hard on the rear quarter window. The driver sped up and I followed, but as I passed I gave the youth a long blast of horn but didnt stop. I looked in the mirror and he was walking down the middle of the road gesturing "come on then", and I could tell he was irate at not managing to 'get' my car; it was all a display of bravado to the two taller lads on the pavement.
My thoughts at the time were that I would have loved to have stopped, got out, and smacked him one in the face. But then I would be the wrongdoer, "assaulting" the poor little teenager. Or what if one of them had a knife? Could have been a different story.
I've had a couple of other situations myself and seen it happen to other drivers, where kids have wandered across the road on foot or on a bike; they dont try to get out of the way, just stare at you as if to say "what are you going to do about it?".
When I was a teenager in the '80's, you didn't dare give any cheek to older kids, you knew there was a chance you would get a beating. Most of the people I knew had respect for adults. Nowadays there are lots of kids about who may receive little discipline at home and definitely none at school and have no respect for anybody. Lord help us when they grow up and have families of their own. Its a downward spiral.
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Whilst I agree with most, keeping one's mouth shut to avoid a beating is fear not respect.
>>Lord help us when they grow up and have families of their own.
I think the problem is that that has already happened, about 15 years ago.
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Shouldn't that be "yoof"?
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I blame the BBC. The world started going down hill when they stopped presenters wearing dinner jackets when on the radio.
Move on, grow up people. These youth will be paying your pensions in years to come, give em a modicum of respect and equality and they will repay you now and in the future.
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"give em a modicum of respect and equality "
As I'm sure you know, TVM, respect and equality have to be earned, not demanded. On those terms I am happy to oblige.
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"respect and equality have to be earned"
Rubbish
respect and equality are an assumed given until proven they are not worthy of it.
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"Rubbish - respect and equality are an assumed given until proven they are not worthy of it"
Disagree. I think what you are calling Respect I would call courtesy. I still say respect is earned.
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I blame the BBC. The world started going down hill when they stopped presenters wearing dinner jackets when on the radio. Move on, grow up people. These youth will be paying your pensions in years to come, give em a modicum of respect and equality and they will repay you now and in the future. ------------------------------ TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
Where do you live? When they show respect, we'll show respect. I live in rural Devon and there is some right dross here. God only knows what it is like in the city now!
best regards...............................MD.
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Whilst I agree with most, keeping one's mouth shut to avoid a beating is fear not respect.
Yes quite right it was respect for some but fear of other older youths. But respect for adults and for peoples property.
>>Lord help us when they grow up and have families of their own. I think the problem is that that has already happened, about 15 years ago.
Yeah I know there are rough areas where these problems have been going on for donkeys years. Just seems to me that it has got worse in the last 5 or so years. The police seem powerless to do anything. Some kids see an ASBO as a badge of honour not a punishment. May be my own perception because I moved from a relatively quiet town in N.E. Derbyshire, to Nottingham 3 years ago...
Andy Bairsto has the right idea - bring back conscription!
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....May be my own perception because I moved from a relatively quiet town in N.E. Derbyshire, to Nottingham 3 years ago...
Crikey, you didn't move to St Anns did you?
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Crikey, you didn't move to St Anns did you?
No I've never even driven through St Anns, never mind moved there!!! ;o)
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Surely the best thing anyone can in a situation like the one Rich described is to deliberately not reinforce any behaviour they find socially unacceptable.
That means not reacting to provocation, not sinking down to 'their level' and not giving anyone the satisfaction of believing they have annoyed you. I think if more people did this the fun would soon go out of riling the general public!
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Rich 9-3 fit some air horns to your vehicle,wait till lacky youf has done his clever strutting in the jay walk fashion in front of you and then as he clears your front bumper with his back to you give him a shrill full trumpet full and watch him jump in the air as you drive off into the sunset laughing as he looks a complete moron in front of his hard mates.......
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I remember when I was at school (in Nottingham BTW, but not St Ann's), I think this was 1988, and one of my teachers turned up in a new Golf GTi. I happened to be walking past as he had pulled into the car park. My reaction - "Nice car sir, but why didn't get you spec the alloys? Oh, and it's the 8v not the 16v then?"
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I remember when I was at school (in Nottingham BTW, but not St Ann's), I think this was 1988, and one of my teachers turned up in a new Golf GTi.
My Headmaster bought a new Rover P6 V8 in 1970 'H' reg. Boy was that cool then. Keep Yer GTI's. It's only a misspelled GIT!
vbr..........md
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Rich 9-3 fit some air horns to your vehicle,wait till lacky youf has done his clever strutting in the jay walk fashion in front of you and then as he clears your front bumper with his back to you give him a shrill full trumpet full and watch him jump in the air as you drive off into the sunset laughing as he looks a complete moron in front of his hard mates.......
I did that once. A pair of A1 Motor Centre specials with a compressor the size of a large coffee mug. Both trumpets mounted on the front crossmember firing directly forwards.
I actually saw daylight between his shoes and the road surface for a good second, and just to cap it off, his mate who was stepping onto the kerb at the time tripped and fell flat on his face!
There aren't many events that nearly a decade on still make me smile, but this is one of them.
Cheers
DP
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Only kidding! Nice to see another BR member from Notingham. Wollaton for us.
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