Rite over the last few weeks ive been out running from home (Dartmoor) in the very early hours of the morning 4-5am for about an hour on some country lanes and on the tors. Anyways few weeks back was running through the woods and came across one of those nice modern whitebricked bungalows and noticed that he had a couple of pints of milk on his door step and i was feeling cheeky so i nabbed one . well....this has been a frequent thing. Running at 5am in the morning and nabbing a pint of milk for the warm down and putting the empty bottle on the step just after i go out. Well anyway yesterday normal running routine jump his wall sprint up 2 the door nab the pint and leg it round the corner. Just as i grabbed the bottle the front door opened just to find some old guy with just his trouers on. It was quite scary as he looked rather angry but just as he was about to speak he noticed that i was wearing my RM t-shirt instead of the bollocking i got a nice talk about joining the core and what sort of beastings he did in his time and showed me his RM tattoo. Anyways was out running this morning and wasnt intending to go nowwhere near his house but instead turning the corner there was a pint of milk on the wall already for me with a note. The note sed " saves you getting my nice patio muddy" take care wolfey. Soo lucky i was wearing my RM t-shirt else i mite of got my teeth filled in.
That is a great story , and very kind of the former Royal Marine to do that. On the other hand if he wasn't a royal marine, you might of changed his views about the royal marines thinking that royals think it's right to steal milk from others, wearing that T-shirt. Happy you posted it though.
haha thats classic, you plan on going back for a chat somtime or maybe help him with the garden or somthing?
people like that are hard to come by, if i tried that round here somone would burn my house down, youl notice tho when speaking to the older ex bootnecks thery always interested in how your applications going and what your up to 'now a days'
well his garden has got a bit of annoying bushes that when its wet and u brush against its like a hole Tsunami over the top of you so that might need cutting down. Plus he has got a very fine grandaughter that stays over everyweekend Shirt of job i reckon for me ha ha ..Only few more exams left and im free from school ha ha cant wait
you want to be a COMMANDO and you can't even raid a doorstep for a pint of milk? Didn't it dawn on you that if you kept the same routine, said unamused customer might twig he'd catch his phantom milk thief if set his alarm?
You could look at it that way or because his house is litterally (about 3 miles) in the middle of nowhere he might of thought that the milkman only gave him 1 pint of milk
When I used to work on the milk floats we had to work extra because of people like you. We did actually have to go past houses that regularly had milk stolen later in the morning and replace it if any was missing... didn't cost me or the driver any extra though so we didn't care.
Lucky for you he saw the funny side though, think I would have punched you, then seen the funny side of some cheeky runner landing on his backside on the patio Nice of hime to leave the milk out for you, wonder if it becomes a regular thing, you should at least drop him a couple of quid for what you drank though, one good deed deserves another etc.
_chris wrote: When I used to work on the milk floats we had to work extra because of people like you. We did actually have to go past houses that regularly had milk stolen later in the morning and replace it if any was missing... didn't cost me or the driver any extra though so we didn't care.
Lucky for you he saw the funny side though, think I would have punched you, then seen the funny side of some cheeky runner landing on his backside on the patio Nice of hime to leave the milk out for you, wonder if it becomes a regular thing, you should at least drop him a couple of quid for what you drank though, one good deed deserves another etc.
Yeah that sounds right mate - or else you should expect that milk in the future to taste some what, sour.
Not that he would do that, but its worth thinking about.
AJ
"First with your head and then with your heart. Don't stop."
Just been up there for dinner with him. Offered him some money for it and he was like mate when i joined the core i did 10 times worse things than take a lousy 20p bottle of milk everymorning. Some of what cannot be put on here but he did however tell me a story about when he went for SF selection they used 2 nick barrels of beer from the pub down the road and fill one of there waterbottles up.
Anyways im going up to clear his garden for him on saturday. He sed he will get the beers in so should be a laugh plus his Grandaughter is there....Kerching
surfingdream wrote:Just been up there for dinner with him. Offered him some money for it and he was like mate when i joined the core i did 10 times worse things than take a lousy 20p bottle of milk everymorning. Some of what cannot be put on here but he did however tell me a story about when he went for SF selection they used 2 nick barrels of beer from the pub down the road and fill one of there waterbottles up.
Anyways im going up to clear his garden for him on saturday. He sed he will get the beers in so should be a laugh plus his Grandaughter is there....Kerching
Haha now your talking. Good story anyway, nice to hear theirs decent folk still around.
surfingdream wrote:Anyways im going up to clear his garden for him on saturday. He sed he will get the beers in so should be a laugh plus his Grandaughter is there....Kerching
Hey,
I am near Plymouth mate so if the girl has a friend and the garden is a two man job then give us a bell!
Seriously, PM me if you fancy doing some training together maybe even a wonder over the moor sometime?
When I used to work on the milk floats we had to work extra because of people like you. 
