Grandmothers tell good dad stories.
My dad is incredibly stubborn: his mum once illustrated this by recalling the time when he was a teenager that the then UK judo champion turned up to his judo school ( or whatever the term is) and proceeded to show off rather than set a good positive example to the students and endeavoured to demonstrate his superiority by challenging the whole group to an endurance exercise which involved 'walking' on the floor on all fours but using your elbows and toes instead of your hands and knees ( no I don't really know why but this was the fifties). Anyway none of the kids made it more than one length of the gym except my old man who matched the increasingly less smug champ for more than five full lengths of that sports hall before finally giving in exhausted and I am told, bleeding. He didn't win but I imagine he dented someone's pride.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 26 Nov 2010, 16:39, Reply)