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Re: Travellers/Tinkers.

Posted: Mon May 31, 2010 3:48 pm
by Jonesy
James not Bond wrote:

> "Pikey bastards, would sell their daughters virginity for fifty
> quid given half a chance"
>
> No they wouldn't.
>
> In the late 80's I used to buy and sell antique furniture,
> mostly for shipping. A group of travellers would camp outside
> Elgin nearly every summer. They used to come to my workshop to
> try and sell me furniture so I did get to know them. They would
> trust me to a point and same for me to them.
>
> Every morning I would see 2 of the eldest daughters from the
> camp lugging huge containers of water from a filling station to
> the camp, I would give them a lift in my van, but I would have
> to drop them at the top of the road leading to their camp so
> their brothers didn't see them with me.
>
> They would probably have chopped my balls off just for speaking
> to their sisters.
>
>

You did it all wrong mate........if you'd waved fifty notes to one of the 'protective' brothers, you'd have had a result!