Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > I got this in a mail and though I'd share it since it was Friday.

[weeveetwin]

I'm a driving instructor, so I'm 'at the coal face' so to speak when it comes to working in close proximity with 17yr olds. Here's a couple of examples..

A young girl (a history student, no less) got into my car about a month ago, after having been at Uni all that morning studying how the Nazis had come into power in Germany. I soon turned the talk towards the Holocaust.

"What's the Holocaust?" says she.
"What was the Holocaust?" says I. "Are you serious?" She stared at me blankly. She'd never even heard of it.
After explaining to her how the Jews were rounded up and gassed in large numbers during the war, she shook her head in disbelief. No! Surely not! How could that happen?
"Have you never heard of Belsen?" says I. "Auschwitz? Dachau?"
"No! Never."
And so it went. I don't know who was most in disbelief - her in hearing the story for the first time, or me in relating it.

Another..
On the day the Pope died, I said to a young girl who'd just got into my car;
"I see the Pope has just been given the Last Rites."
"The Pope? Who's that?"says she.
"Who's the Pope?" says I. "Are you serious?" She stared at me blankly.

(A-Level students, both of 'em, and the foregoing is absolutely true. God help us!)

[Edited on 8-4-2005 by weeveetwin]

[Glyn]

the one that bothers me is the smacking!
as i grew up i got punished when i was naughty.
if i was very naughty i got smacked
if i was really bad i got a right good belt an all.
my mum might not even speak to me for a day or so
i don't think i was hard done by thats just how it was.

now parent's dont disapline in the same way, if your naughty you sit on the naughty step. you might even get a toy or video game confiscated!!

in the big scheme of things the human race has been bringing up their offspring in the way that seems natural to them or from the experiances of there own childhood since we lived in the trees. sudenly it's wrong to smack.
i wonder what this generation will grow up like?
they might be the greatest ever but some how im not convinced



p.s my missis asked me if the pope's son would now be pope!!

[sparkin]

U saw that on the UKMOC site a year or two back and wished I`d saved it,glad you posted it here Rob

[Jon]

Any of you remember the time when your Mom done the washing in a open top washer, before the days of automatics. Them wooden tweezer thingys that she used to grab the hot cloths. Thats what she used to belt me with if I naughtey. I think I was twenty three the last time she used em on me.