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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: darkbrowneggs on December 13, 2013, 01:09:12 pm

Title: Just had my skip collected by an 87 year old.....
Post by: darkbrowneggs on December 13, 2013, 01:09:12 pm: I have been dealing with a local firm since I moved back here over 25 years ago - and today I phoned to have the full skip collected with detritus from the coming house sale

Bill turned up again to collect it - 87 years old and still hale and hearty. Threw in the last mattress, sheeted up fitted the chains lifted and drove off with a cherry wave. The firm was started by his parents in 1919 as a local bus transport company
Title: Re: Just had my skip collected by an 87 year old.....
Post by: Q on December 13, 2013, 01:11:39 pm: They will probably save his back and let him use a lorry to take the skip away when he gets to 90 :roflanim: :roflanim:
Title: Re: Just had my skip collected by an 87 year old.....
Post by: Lesley Silvester on December 13, 2013, 10:31:49 pm: Good for Bill. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Just had my skip collected by an 87 year old.....
Post by: happygolucky on December 13, 2013, 10:37:47 pm: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: , brilliant,
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They will probably save his back and let him use a lorry to take the skip away when he gets to 90 (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/Smileys/default/rofl.gif) (http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/forum/Smileys/default/rofl.gif)
:roflanim: :roflanim:
We had an allotment and our house backed onto it, we used to see an elderly man walk from the next village daily and sometimes he had his lawnmower on his back carrying it, amazing but in a few years time no one will be retired until into their 70's
Title: Re: Just had my skip collected by an 87 year old.....
Post by: Beewyched on December 13, 2013, 10:54:24 pm: Quote from: Q on December 13, 2013, 01:11:39 pm
They will probably save his back and let him use a lorry to take the skip away when he gets to 90 :roflanim: :roflanim:

Took me a while ... :roflanim:
Title: Re: Just had my skip collected by an 87 year old.....
Post by: mowhaugh on December 14, 2013, 11:49:37 am: Fantastic. Did anyone read the article in this week's Scottish Farmer about the 91 year old chap volunteering three full days a week for RDA?