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Old This and That Dave Iszard This article was first published in TUG in July 2011. Dave’s periodic ‘This and That’ articles were a much appreciated feature of the magazine. We miss them! My thoughts turned to Chris Johnson who on a group ride about two years discovered that his tail pack was unzipped and the contents had blown away. The contents being the documentation of the whole of his life strewn over a distance of about thirty miles. He back tracked but found nothing. Things like driving licence, insurance, Mot, all gone. When he returned home he found that Rumanian gypsies had stolen his identity and moved into his house. Undeterred he entertained them with a game of Bingo Quiz. Not being able to answer any of the questions, demoralised, they moved out that evening. The moral of the story zip up your tail pack. At a recent committee meeting it was discussed whether we should carry first aid kits with us. A serious debate followed about what the kit would contain. More debate followed about what outlet, Halfords or Boots, would be best to buy such a kit from. More debate about how big it would be and where would you stow it on the bike. It was then concluded that a first aid kit would be totally inadequate in the event of a motor cycle accident, you would have trouble mending a broken collar bone with a sticky plaster. So the idea was dropped but Lyn and Madeleine had their own discussion about the matter and decided that as long as they had lip stick and lip seal everything was covered in the event of an accident. I thought no more about it until a few nights ago when I had a dream. We were out on a group ride when a dog ran into the road and straight under the wheels of my bike. I braked as hard as I could but hit the dog and down I went. Knocked unconscious, I ‘came to’ to find Lyn and Madeleine applying lip stick to me. I gazed over to my right to see the dog already had lip stick on
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