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Offline kevin3

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« Reply #50 on: June 21, 2009, 15:11:57 PM »
Regards the begging.
Ask yourself a question.If you were hungry,would you sit on a pavement all day,every day  holding your hand out.??
There's a severely handicapped old lady goes round the markets,ect in an electric disability chair.She does'nt beg.She's got off her arse and created a little business,selling odds and ends.There's also an old one armed man selling odds and ends.I always look after both of these people because I admire them.



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« Reply #51 on: June 21, 2009, 15:40:29 PM »
With regards to the lady in the electric chair, she used to beg on the streets but a kind Swiss couple took pity on her and set her up with the chair and gave her some capital to buy some stock. She's a lovely lady!

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« Reply #52 on: June 21, 2009, 15:40:45 PM »
I might give money to a mother and child where one of them looks starving. It would have to be the mother, which it never is. Who the hell would make their child more malnourished than them?

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« Reply #53 on: June 21, 2009, 18:12:03 PM »
We always buy a little something from the lady in the electric wheelchair. She certainly gets around in it.

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« Reply #54 on: June 21, 2009, 19:20:10 PM »
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Originally posted by littlereddevil

Laffa
Is Hagi not the nice man I think he is ?


Hagi used to be called "the uncle", and he put the shoe shine kids up with somewhere to live,i'm not in a position to say how good or bad he was,I could write a book on Nesim, he had evry football kit in the prem division and Rangers, Celtic, you name it,he also had alot of toys, we bought him a new bike over one year and he came back and asked for the receipt on his old one, obviously going to sell it,so we took the new one back off him,but gave it to him before we went home,he grew up very streetwise, which is understandable, but as he grew he lost his charm ,we used to bring warm clothes and boots over for him to take to his family in the winter,hard to believe when your basking in the Calis sunshine,but he was from east Turkey and said it was a very cold place,he would sit with us till 3 in the morning and then come down and have a breakfast the next day, then sleep on the sunbed until it was time to go to work,but he would always take off his new clothes and put the old ones back on ,he said he must look poor when he works,but trust me he made more money than most of the waiters did,apparently he works in Hison now,and has a few children of his own, but is now divorced,he was never allowed in  the pool at the Mutlu, some people let him in and others never,and when you think how young he was  its no wonder he became the little shyster he did,

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« Reply #55 on: June 22, 2009, 21:37:18 PM »
I'm amazed people get so annoyed by these little things. We have a quick chat with the ones we have got to know over the years, and it's a polite 'no thanks' to the others and no more thought of it. As for the lady buying a rose and biting the head off in front of the seller, if someone I was out with did that, it would be the last time I went out in their company. I've never heard anything so rude and disrespectful.

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« Reply #56 on: June 22, 2009, 22:49:20 PM »
I've always found that a stern but polite "NO thankyou" usually does the trick. Some of the kids are quite sweet, the little rose girl, alma i think her name was, always sat and had a chat with us. She even taught me some turkish once, bless her.

Out of curiosity, is the elderly lady still about that walks with a hunch and usually carries wood in a sack on her back? We always used to see her around the sunday market area but don't recall seeing her on my last visit.

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« Reply #57 on: June 23, 2009, 00:30:43 AM »
Along with the stern but polite 'No Thankyou' gesture a hand on heart too. Does the trick.

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« Reply #58 on: June 23, 2009, 14:28:11 PM »
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Originally posted by GrantT

I'm amazed people get so annoyed by these little things. We have a quick chat with the ones we have got to know over the years, and it's a polite 'no thanks' to the others and no more thought of it. As for the lady buying a rose and biting the head off in front of the seller, if someone I was out with did that, it would be the last time I went out in their company. I've never heard anything so rude and disrespectful.


GRANT, fortunately the rose lady knows me, and took it in good spirit,realising the person in question was pi-sed,in fact I was more shocked than the rose lady,but having said that she went on to take another 30 lira from our table,and yes she is a bit nuts, and yes again I would still sit in her company.it takes all sorts.etc

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« Reply #59 on: June 23, 2009, 19:12:12 PM »
typical scouser will talk to any one LOL




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