Good deeds done today

[klingon]

I had a (sort of) similar experience a few months ago. I was riding down Carrington Road (a busy arterial route) at about 5pm and saw a little kid in nappies wandering along the edge of the road. Stopped my bike, jumped off, dumped my helmet (trying not to scare the little kid) and went towards him. He took off as fast as his little skinny legs could carry him - straight towards a busy intersection!

So I took off after him. Bike boots and full gear are apparently not designed for running in - I must have been quite a sight! (Glad I'm female - if it was a bloke doing that I'm sure the polices would have been there in a second)

Anyway I grabbed him before he got to the intersection, but that left me holding a squirming toddler, beside a very busy road in rush hour, and no idea where he belonged. (And he wasn't co-operating with my questions about where he lived.) So I walked back up the road the way he'd been coming from and went up to each house and banged on the door. Nobody home in any of them. Eventually I came to a house with toys all over the front yard and the door wide open. After a fair while of me banging and yelling a woman came to the door all bleary-eyed from a nap. She didn't look especially surprised to see a stranger standing there with her kid.

I handed the kid over and said something a bit grumpy to her about being more careful in future. She started blaming another kid who must have been about 4 years old and who was apparently left in charge of the toddler while the mother slept! Tragedy waiting to happen. I wonder if either of those kids are still alive. Poor little tots.

[MadDuck]

Stopped my bike, jumped off, dumped my helmet (trying not to scare the little kid) and went towards him.

Now see I wouldnt do that because I scare little kids

[CookMySock]

Whew, I thought it was going to be another blender joke.

Steve

[MadDuck]

Actually got me thinking if I lost my job which is a reality at the moment what would I do? Anything with children would be out because quite frankly they drive me nuts so selling ice creams, lollies or barbie dolls .....

[klingon]

Now see I wouldnt do that because I scare little kids

Yeah well maybe that was my first mistake - I might have been less scary with the helmet on and the tinted visor securely shut.

[junkmanjoe]

yea it plays in ya mind, all this kiddy crap. bring back the old days i say.
what do ya do. ride past leave the child in the road.
or stop try and do the decent thing and help, with out old ladys crying kidnap.., chassing ya with a roling pin, hay if it was my child i would hope some one would be decent enough to see why there on the road in first place.

well the mother was thankfull anyhow.

[fire eyes]

well done mate ..

[slydesigns]

Picked a kid up off the street on thursday who had binned on his pushbike while watching me ride past. He put the handlebar end into his groin and the barend was exposed metal. OUCH

Rang his dad to come get him as his hip joint was nicley bruised and going stiff.

Then educated him in the levels of pain and suffering he can look forward to in years to come if he continues to ride, progressing from pedals to dirtbikes to roadbikes as I have.

His leg didnt hurt so much after that and he even managed a laugh or 2 between tears.

I think he liked the story where my ex wife did exactly the same thing on a YZ125 on the old Taikorea SuperX Track.

She tucked it railing the berm too high up in the soft sand, spiked herself in the lower stomach with the barend up under her armour and flip up and over, landing hard on her back still tangled in the bike! She got up, tears streaming and finished the race in 4th, then later had it checked out at A and E to discover she was pregnant!



AHHHH THE MEMORIES.... GOOD TIMES