What career path would you have trod if….

[chartpolski 23,562]

My eight year old grandson called me on face time last night, he was telling me that his mum gives him 100 riyals a week allowance, about £20 . 
I asked if he spends it or saves it and he told me it goes into a school “bank account” and the more that goes in the more interest he gets and the longer it’s in he gets compound interest ! 
I was taken aback that he knew such things, but his mum said it’s part of the maths lessons and designed to teach the kids financial responsibility ! 
This is at a private school, I never had anything like that when I was at school, I’d like to hope it’s being taught at comprehensives, but somehow I doubt it !

Cheers.

[Borr 6,006]

Just now, chartpolski said:

My eight year old grandson called me on face time last night, he was telling me that his mum gives him 100 riyals a week allowance, about £20 . 
I asked if he spends it or saves it and he told me it goes into a school “bank account” and the more that goes in the more interest he gets and the longer it’s in he gets compound interest ! 
I was taken aback that he knew such things, but his mum said it’s part of the maths lessons and designed to teach the kids financial responsibility ! 
This is at a private school, I never had anything like that when I was at school, I’d like to hope it’s being taught at comprehensives, but somehow I doubt it !

Cheers.

With £1.50 dinner money I could buy 10 regal king-size and a tiptop.....

[chartpolski 23,562]

1 minute ago, Borr said:

With £1.50 dinner money I could buy 10 regal king-size and a tiptop.....

All my mates bought tabs…. I bought a savaloy dip !

Cheers.

[WILF 46,811]

7 minutes ago, Borr said:

With £1.50 dinner money I could buy 10 regal king-size and a tiptop.....

We used to tax the lad that played “The milky Bar Kid” in adverts for whatever was in his pockets and buy bensons ! Lol 

[mackem 26,470]

5 minutes ago, WILF said:

We used to tax the lad that played “The milky Bar Kid” in adverts for whatever was in his pockets and buy bensons ! Lol 

I met the original milky bar kid,the original,I told this story before,I was introduced to him in Ashford Middlesex years ago,he was working as a white van man around Heathrow,I kept saying to him “Go on mate,say the milky bars are on me” he sighed and said “Mate,I am in my f***ing 40’s I don’t do that anymore” lol

[downsouth 7,280]

22 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

My eight year old grandson called me on face time last night, he was telling me that his mum gives him 100 riyals a week allowance, about £20 . 
I asked if he spends it or saves it and he told me it goes into a school “bank account” and the more that goes in the more interest he gets and the longer it’s in he gets compound interest ! 
I was taken aback that he knew such things, but his mum said it’s part of the maths lessons and designed to teach the kids financial responsibility ! 
This is at a private school, I never had anything like that when I was at school, I’d like to hope it’s being taught at comprehensives, but somehow I doubt it !

Cheers.

Id have liked to have got pocket money when I was at school.Any money my stepfather had that didnt go on bills went over the bar of the village boozer.Anything I soon learned to earn myself either car washing,fruit picking in the summer or beating in the winter went on baccy,2 star for for whatever stripped down track bike I had at the time and by 15 puff and acid tabs

[chartpolski 23,562]

9 minutes ago, downsouth said:

Id have liked to have got pocket money when I was at school.Any money my stepfather had that didnt go on bills went over the bar of the village boozer.Anything I soon learned to earn myself either car washing,fruit picking in the summer or beating in the winter went on baccy,2 star for for whatever stripped down track bike I had at the time and by 15 puff and acid tabs

When I was at school I delivered papers in the evening, delivered for the local butcher in the morning and was a butcher boy in the shop on Saturday.

All my money went on Levi jeans and sta-press, Ben Sherman shirts, made to measure suits from Burtons and every gadget and gizmo I could get for my lambretta !

Cheers.

 

[DIDO.1 22,829]

35 minutes ago, WILF said:

We used to tax the lad that played “The milky Bar Kid” in adverts for whatever was in his pockets and buy bensons ! Lol 

One of the milky bar kids hunted the south Durham hunt

[downsouth 7,280]

1 minute ago, chartpolski said:

When I was at school I delivered papers in the evening, delivered for the local butcher in the morning and was a butcher boy in the shop on Saturday.

All my money went on Levi jeans and sta-press, Ben Sherman shirts, made to measure suits from Burtons and every gadget and gizmo I could get for my lambretta !

Cheers.

 

Nice scooter,Shame about the mod clobber though

[Borr 6,006]

Just now, downsouth said:

Nice scooter,Shame about the mod clobber though

Was on hols in isle of white , musta been mod fest , scooters everywhere was great to see tbh and beaches were empty as mods just sit in cafes and rides girly bikes lol

[mel b 2,410]

6 minutes ago, chartpolski said:

When I was at school I delivered papers in the evening, delivered for the local butcher in the morning and was a butcher boy in the shop on Saturday.

All my money went on Levi jeans and sta-press, Ben Sherman shirts, made to measure suits from Burtons and every gadget and gizmo I could get for my lambretta !

Cheers.

 

Is that some manner of hair dryer that you're sitting on ? .

[chartpolski 23,562]

Give me a break lads ! I've also rode motor bikes all my life ! LOL !

Cheers.

 

[WILF 46,811]

At school we got by with the normal stripping lead off church roofs or nicking it from the local builders merchant, copper and scrap from an abandoned Fisons chemical plant down the road etc etc

Then I was waking along with my pal when he got lifted by the old bill, unknown to me he had blagged the local garage with a crossbow and made his getaway on a 50 special with the grand sum of about 200 bensons and £30 ! Last we saw of him for a couple of years and he was a basket case on the drugs when they let him out of Young offenders. 
 

Just shy of 15 and aimed out of school me and a pal who could drive used to go down a local wholesaler and buy kit to sell on the knocker, dusters, dishcloths, ironing board covers and all manner of similar nonsense.

Out door to door every day with our nicked supermarket plastic bread baskets, all readies…..lovely job.

I tell you something boys, you see some sights knocking on peoples doors all day ! Lol 

Also dug foundations by hand for builders when things was quiet……

All before 17 ! Lol 

f**k me, feel like I’ve lived a million years going on like that 

 

[downsouth 7,280]

7 minutes ago, WILF said:

At school we got by with the normal stripping lead off church roofs or nicking it from the local builders merchant, copper and scrap from an abandoned Fisons chemical plant down the road etc etc

Then I was waking along with my pal when he got lifted by the old bill, unknown to me he had blagged the local garage with a crossbow and made his getaway on a 50 special with the grand sum of about 200 bensons and £30 ! Last we saw of him for a couple of years and he was a basket case on the drugs when they let him out of Young offenders. 
 

Just shy of 15 and aimed out of school me and a pal who could drive used to go down a local wholesaler and buy kit to sell on the knocker, dusters, dishcloths, ironing board covers and all manner of similar nonsense.

Out door to door every day with our nicked supermarket plastic bread baskets, all readies…..lovely job.

I tell you something boys, you see some sights knocking on peoples doors all day ! Lol 

Also dug foundations by hand for builders when things was quiet……

All before 17 ! Lol 

f**k me, feel like I’ve lived a million years going on like that 

 

Now you must be lieing,You aint getting away from any c**t on a 50special especially carrying the extra weight of 200 bensons

[WILF 46,811]

Just now, downsouth said:

Now you must be lieing,You aint getting away from any c**t on a 50special especially carrying the extra weight of 200 bensons

Lol  

I wouldn’t mind, he only lived round the corner to the garage, he could have walked quicker ! Lol