Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Traveling Abroad?I met my friends granfather at a BBQ. Top bloke, could tell the brand and age of a whiskey from 20 paces, by colour and smell alone.
Chatting away, I made the mistake of mentioning the face I was off on holiday to France.
He suddenly launched into a tirade about 'going abroad' and how everywhere was full of 'bl**dy foreigners'. His one piece of advice to me was simply "Don't go anywhere overseas - it's more trouble than it's worth..."
Quite perplexed, I asked my friends Dad why he had such a problem with 'abroad'.
Aparently, the last time he went anywhere not in the British Isles was in 1944, and the Germans on the beach were machine gunning him and his pals.
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HSDriver was probably still at work on, Sat 21 Jun 2008, 16:31,
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my friend's grandadwhile struggling to locate his passport at CDG airport, announced that he hadn't needed one last time he visited France. When the passport control guy asked what he meant, he replied,
"When I ran up the beach in June 1944 no-one asked for it"
They still made him find it though
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