Yep, there are great like minded people out there enjoying this great country of ours.

Jon I am not surprised any more by the kindness distributed by all manner of folk, I am occasionally surprised by the ignorance of some folk

the last time we seen it was Kangaroo Island, we were watching a japanese couple trying to put up a tent, hilarious, they had no hammer and were trying to hammer a clothes hanger into the ground with a rock

well we finished our cuppa and I dug into my "spare parts bag" and grabbed an old hammer and a dozen pegs, I always carry 10 or twenty spare pegs and a couple of hammers as we come across folks who have none all the time, I make them myself out of left over concrete reo bar so they cost nothing but I get good payment with all the smiles and freindship

we wandered across to these fellers, and found they couldnt speak a word of english, they had bought the tent from a garage sale in adelaide and this was the first time they had tried to put it up, we gave them the pegs and an old hammer and helped them put the tent up, which is another story, hell we had some laughs none of us knew what the thing was supposed to look like and had no idea of what we were doing, first one I had seen that had a "flysheet" I thought it was another tent

anyway this german lass came over wanting to borrow the hammer, we said sure as soon soon as we finish this one, she left with that and we could hear her going off her face over at her camp, she came back and basically demanded the hammer, we said as soon as we finish she could have it, she got very irate and tried to take the hammer away from the little japanese girlie

it got quite heated over a damn hammer, this is what I find astounding not the kindness of strangers but the sheer ignorance of some!

we had a cuppa with the jap couple and enjoyed a half hour with each other not understanding a single word but having plenty of laughs anyway

DD........"""BEHAVE"""

Dave

and this comes from a DUCK!!

enough to drive a man Quackers!!!

"pay it forward" I like that!! I just got into the habit of when I dropped off sharpened saw blades to a building site that I would pick up the off cuts from either reo bar or concrete reinforcing mesh, it is a simple matter of bending the end over in the super jaws and voila you have a tentpeg

we visit garage sales and there is almost always old ratty hammers in amongst that lot for a dollar, we buy them and just keep the hammers and spare tent pegs in a smallish bag beside the cupboard, there is nearly always someone who is strife

every now and then, like milo did, you come across a drongoe, but there are for more "good guys" out there than drongoes

I see the good guys all the time helping someone out, nothing special it is just a common courtesy and should be expected, but also should be noted as has been done by this post!

We have a beer here in the West called Hammer 'n' Tongs, not a bad drop

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I got one here with your name on it Duck!




*OUCH*

 

"Quarrrrk" after the hammer hits!!