handyman Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I put an extension out the van in austria and let the backpackers charge up their mobiles and laptops..... .............now thats being really nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malc d Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Well done. Pity we didn't know a couple of weeks ago - you could have been included in the Queens birthday honours. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordThornber Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I offered the use of our shower room and any other facillites they fancied to the 3 permanantly bikini-clad Swedish girls camped nearby us last year. Or did I just dream that? Martyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handyman Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 lord T, that reminds me......i was stuck in a q of traffic for a few hours in austria (crash 1 mile ahead) and i let 2 very nice italian ladys use my toilet. by christ I'm nice person:-D ............and I didnt clean the toilet for a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordThornber Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 handyman - 2008-06-17 3:49 PM lord T, that reminds me......i was stuck in a q of traffic for a few hours in austria (crash 1 mile ahead) and i let 2 very nice italian ladys use my toilet. by christ I'm nice person:-D ............and I didnt clean the toilet for a week Mere courtesies that we offered of course....what else :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syd Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 I accidently bumped into the little beggar who stole my sons Euro's recently. He slipped and banged his head on the urinal quiet hard so I didn't kick him. Im just too soft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROON Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 :D Have you realised that it is all men who are blowing their own trumpet??? :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenewellhome Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Syd - 2008-06-17 5:02 PM I accidently bumped into the little beggar who stole my sons Euro's recently. He slipped and banged his head on the urinal quiet hard so I didn't kick him. Im just too soft Glad to see you're learning to restrain yourself Syd (lol) . D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J9withdogs Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 ROON - 2008-06-17 5:16 PM :D Have you realised that it is all men who are blowing their own trumpet??? :-) You are so right, Joy! It's like my son saying - 'I've done the washing up FOR YOU, Mom!' What do these guys want. A medal?? In edit: Oops forgot the smiley (lol) through clenched teeth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michele Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Syd, you're slipping :D I think you deserve a medal anyway where you been hanging (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handyman Posted June 17, 2008 Author Share Posted June 17, 2008 here was me thinking there would have been pages and pages of all the nice things that motorhomers have done. So far one person has smashed someones face off a urinal (but not kicked him) :-S and another has dreamed of helping swedish girls :-S (lol) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syd Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 davenewell@home - 2008-06-17 6:14 PM Glad to see you're learning to restrain yourself Syd (lol) . D. Yes I am now under control Dave Dont know what it was that made him slip and bang his head though. Do you think it could it have been my very thight grip on his fruit and nuts or the nose problem that he experienced from our heads accidently clashing that caused it. Either way I feel really good about it Michelle, Ive been in Spain for about 10 weeks arrived home Sunday evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenewellhome Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Syd - 2008-06-17 7:14 PM davenewell@home - 2008-06-17 6:14 PM Glad to see you're learning to restrain yourself Syd (lol) . D. Yes I am now under control Dave Dont know what it was that made him slip and bang his head though. Do you think it could it have been my very thight grip on his fruit and nuts or the nose problem that he experienced from our heads accidently clashing that caused it. Either way I feel really good about it Michelle, Ive been in Spain for about 10 weeks arrived home Sunday evening I'm going to pretend you didn't say any of that Syd :D . As for being nice, well as I'm just a nice guy anyway there's nothing new or special to brag about :D . D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Syd Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Hi Dave I am not bragging at all, I always said that one day I would bump into this lowlife and low and behold I did. Anyone who steals money from a severly disabled young man who is unable to defend himself, especially if that person happens to be my son, deserves as many accidents as he can get. This is his second one and who knows he may have more to come yet. Bloody yobs only understand this sort of treatment and it is just a pity the law no longer deals with them firmly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hymer C 9. Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Just made a Biker a cup of coffee while he was putting his tent up. (the kettle was boiling anyway). :-) Carol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggyd Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Now that was very kind of you Carol :-D ;-) :-D takes much more effort than dangling a wire out of a window!!! Sorry boys us girls stick to-gether you know. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mel B Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 When on holiday in Holland recently (BB = before bricks) we were on a campsite and at around 7.30 pm a young Dutch couple arrived and proceeded to put up their new tent - they were trying it out before they went on a week's holiday later in the summer - we made them a nice cup of coffee. :-D A few nights later we were parked up for the night in a nice little spot and a German couple with a tent parked up at around 10.30 pm and started to put their tent up, we offered to make them a nice hot drink (it was quite cold out) to warm them up, they said they'd come over when they'd put the tent up ... we sat up for half an hour ... they went to bed! 8-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J9withdogs Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Last month I sat at the roadside for an hour and half with an elderly couple from Scotland whose caravan had detached itself from their car and driven itself through a brick wall. I also got them a list of B & B's for them to stay that night, helped rescue their cat out of the caravan and made them a cup of tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaz43 Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 this is a competition my wife says i have no chance of winning :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hymer C 9. Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 J9withdogs - 2008-06-17 9:43 PM Last month I sat at the roadside for an hour and half with an elderly couple from Scotland whose caravan had detached itself from their car and driven itself through a brick wall. I also got them a list of B & B's for them to stay that night, helped rescue their cat out of the caravan and made them a cup of tea. Janine this one is going to the top of my list (well done that girl) :-) Carol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J9withdogs Posted June 17, 2008 Share Posted June 17, 2008 Thank you Carol. Hardest bit was keeping my hands off the cute fireman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordThornber Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Right girls, just to redress the balance... A solo female caravanner was struggling reversing with her van. So yes, our hero, (me, of course), went over and put the world to rights for her by pitching it for her. I also advised her to buy a motorhome 8-) We met 3 Australians in The Dordogne who had flown over with their cycles and their miniscule amount of clothing and camping kit. How happy were they to be granted unlimited access to our beer/ wine/fridge/shower? They were a lovely trio and it was a pleasure to help them. On the flip side, a Dutch guy next to us a couple of years ago. What a gem he was. One day the heavens opened whilst we were shoving a shrimp on the BBQ, over he came with this huge brolly to save me moving into our storage tent. Same guy helped me a fix a drip from a waste pipe with some gaffer tape he had to hand. He'd more tools than Halfords. We were in town on one occasion when the heavens opened, when we returned to the van, our elderly French neighbours had kindly put our chairs and laundry away for us in their awning. It's nice to be nice. Martyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROON Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Aaaawwwwwww ! I feel a group hug coming on!!! WHO SAID YUK! >:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hymer C 9. Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Martyn, we find it happens more often than not for campers to help each other out, you only have to see some chap looking under his bonnet and with in minutes there are usually 3 or 4 more heads giving help and encouragement wanted or not. And I think its more normal than not if some one near has left things out and it rains someone will put them in the dry. And more than once we have had our washing taken in and folded if it has come to rain when we were out. Last year in Valencia a New Zealand couple had there wallet taken and a attempted break in during the same week end (America's Cup) that week end the campers all around got the tables all together got the BQ out and for the week end everyone ate together Swiss/Dutch/German/and UK. the lovely New Zealand couple said it made something awful, good again. and we all sat in the evening together chatting. There are a lot of good folk out there. Carol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordThornber Posted June 18, 2008 Share Posted June 18, 2008 Hello Carol, yes I agree with you, there are a whole lot of good folk out there. Sadly, the nasty side of life seems to hog more of the headlines and it's very easy to get distracted by the negativity surrounding us. I'm fairly confident that most of us on here could post a similiar post to mine descibing their own and others good deeds. I know I could add to mine if I thought hard enough. Mr Dogooder.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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