# Re: Saturday's Dog Walk

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Posted by Mike on September 18, 2019 at 12:02:50

In Reply to: Re: Saturday's Dog Walk posted by wetchas on September 17, 2019 at 10:53:44:

Hi Wetchas, sorry I've only just noticed your post. Believe you I am very aware of my behaviour around these lads and the example I show them. I'm 25 now but I worked in children's homes with some quite damaged kids for a few years when I was 19, so I know to be careful and aware of what they're up to and how society perceives things, which quite frankly doesn't help needy kids.

While these boys come from affluent homes, where money is clearly no issue, they are totally starved of parental contact, concern or even basic parental love. It's a case of here's a load of money, now get lost I don't want to see you, hear you or be bothered by you. I've worked with kids who've been sexually abused by parents and siblings and quite frankly they weren't as fundamentally damaged as all three of these boys! Today's society doesn't help because it makes us all too scared to engage with kids and young people that we see everyday around us, just in case we get called a paedophile. From my day to day work it now seems that shouting that word at someone you have a disagreement with is the best way to win and p*** them off. These boys were literally over the moon that I dared to speak to them, talk about my experiences growing up and actually engage with them instead of leaving them to their own devices and ignoring them like all the other adults they know, including their family and teachers.

You're quite correct, their casual 'play and hangout' clothes are probably in excess of £300 each. The Berghaus coat costs about £150, because I've also got one. The three of them were stood in trainers each costing over a £100 a pair. That's before calculating the cost of their trackies, jeans, shirts, socks, etc. Both Jake and Richie sport wuite thick gold chains around their necks and Ste had a gold signet ring on his right middle finger. All three boys have gold ear studs. Frankly their magnets for robberies and they know it. But it would seem that to kids these days life is cheap and these three have got more money than sense and I don't mean that disrespectfully. They just get given money instead of love and care! At 13 they recognise this themselves and in some ways are more mature than their years but in other ways they behave like infants.

Their school uniform is definitely the cheapest option and just like when I was growing up, the clothes you wear the most and virtually every day. Hence why I gave mine such a hammering.

They say the coats are back to normal, although I haven't seen them yet because they don't wear any coat apart from their blazers in the week apparently! Just like most kids I see walking to or from school. I have to agree I was the same, coats got in the way so leave them at home. What was the worst that could happen? Oh, you'd get wet and that's your aim anyway.

It really is a shame that man reacted to you and his kid the way he did. Obviously the kid was up for it or he wouldn't have done it, the speed at which he did it I bet he'd done it before. What sort of clothing was he wearing, was he dressed smartly with leather shoes or something that might have got ruined? Or was he just in jeans, casual gear and trainers. I bet the kid wasn't too impressed. it sounds to me like the kid loved it or he wouldn't have done it. I know when I was growing up, that despite getting wet in my school clothes and other stuff from primary onwards, I don't think I got the courage to go in the sea clothed until at least 12 and then it was after the rest of my mates had run in when we visited the sea side and beach on a school day trip. The teachers weren't impressed with fifteen or so soaking wet boys in jeans, trainers and jackets. But once I got into diving through the sea waves fully clothed with my mates it was the best buzz and we knew we'd have to stay wet and travel home like that all day. We started by running away from the waves, then we eventually let them catch our trainers and socks and then we gradually walked in further and further rising on tip toes above the waves until suddenly we were starting to get soaked above the waist and then it was too late to worry. A riot broke out with everything including our hair soaked in sticky sea water. I still see kids doing exactly the same process with their mates on the beach today.

I take it that lads still a youngster today? He's not got older and you've bumped into him since? After that experience I guarantee he'll be in to it at every opportunity, once you've done it it's difficult to stop the inner child!

The water park is getting s bit colder now as I found out, but I think the water seems to retain the warmth longer. It's once you come out that you feel the cold, but if like these lads you don't take anything off including coats, you retain the warmth. I didn't see any of them shivering on Saturday.

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