Swifty
doesn't negotiate with terriers
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I once got 20ft away from the top of Mount Snowdon .. it was through The Princess Trust, one of those self development courses and I remember thinking ".. even if nothing comes of this course, at the least, I can tell myself that I once climbed a mountain, this will spur me on in life's endeavours." ... unfortunately, we had a little twat with us, about 17 years old who kept running ahead of us, or to the left, or the right etc ignoring the bloke in charge of us. So we got to within 20 ft of the summit, our team leader asked a couple walking back down about the weather conditions at the top, they replied it was a little icy and Scrappy ****ing Doo was still running around like a headless chicken on speed (because he was, in fact, on speed) so we had to all turn back instead .. I could have killed that kid that day ..Makes me think of a charity walk back in the early 1970's, to raise money for a local hospital.
Just about everything that could go wrong did, including the weather, with so many of the walkers ending up in the hospital, it was reckoned to have cost the hospital more than it received. But as someone said at the time:- "It's different budgets. So that's all right!!!"
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