Morrisman
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First trip back to the U.K. after six solid years away, down the old pub, couple of old friends asked where I’d been, so I started giving them a very abbreviated run down of the years…. and within minutes their eyes had glazed over, no comprehension of what I was talking about, or where, so I changed the subject and then pretty much sat and listened to them talking about work, football and darts.…Mine neither thankfully, cant think off anything worse, been stuck on some tin can, with a bunch of sheep, who Id probably not like anyway. And sat at a dinner table with some muppet with gold braid just errrrrr like me!
You dont need pictures while you still have the memories, where the pictures are useful is once the marbles are starting to depart, they serve as a memory jogger.
I meet loads of people who basically havent done anything with their lives, but travel unassisted, outside the box employment/ sports etc are not for everyone. Takes a certain mindset to put up with the cr4p a travelling rotational or otherwise foreign worker puts up with for the inflated pay check and loss of freedoms. Its basically just industrial prostitution selling time for money!
As for folk not believing you….I learnt quite young to say little,
examples
21 years old March, I came home deep tan been away since September. One of the best looking women I know, odd half of a pair of non identical twins, said “Hi Ive not seen you for a while”, I replied “been away“. oh where, so I listed a few places, she said not very nicely Bull…t. I gave up and went back to drinking. Some years later her son is in my daughters class at school. We ended up chatting, she apologised for disbelieving me as travel and working away etc just wasn't something she was familiar with. And yes she is still 40 years later a good looking woman, see her now and again in the local horsey farm shop.
Another apparently I was in a dream world of fantasy as I went sailing, according to a Chief Engineer when I was an apprentice! Basically some folk just have closed minds if youve different experiences to their closed minded existence .
Two weeks later I was on a plane back to the far east, I’d had enough of the U.K. already and then came back once every couple of years.