I Wanna Tell You A Story

[Wheelbarrow repair man]

With the Stories of the Players Notts have signed and the progress of England and Scotland in the Euro's I thought I'd take a break from Football and tell a Story not football related. And hopefully PON members will come on this thread and tell us all, a Story that they know. It doesn't have to be funny or Football Related. It can be about Hope or a Kind Act or just something that either happened to you or some one you know. A story that's stuck with you for years and hopefully you will be willing to Share with other members. Here's mine.

My Mate Paul told me this story. A few years ago a family moved into the Big House (as the locals called it) next to the estate were he lived. Paul got to know the kids and hung around with them. One Day he was invited to the House. He told me all about the House, I wont bore you with the details. Outside the back Garden was massive, Paul had never seen anything so big. There was a big lawn to play on, and at the bottom of the Garden was a Fish Pond and in this Pond, Paul's mates Dad kept Koi Carp. Everything my Mate was told took second place to their Dad's Koi.

One day the Kids Dad found a Heron stalking around the Pond, thankfully he managed to shoo it off, before it did any Damage and ate any Fish. Not wanting to lose any of his Expensive Stock, the Dad sort advice and was told to get a Fake Heron a model and place it near the Pond, so any real Heron who saw the Fake one would think that, that was the Fake Heron's territory and would leave the Pond Alone.

So with the Fake Heron in place everything went smoothly for a few months. Until the Night of the Big Storm. Torrential Rain and High Winds battered the area and finally once the Storm was over ,the Koi owner went out to inspect the Damage. There were a few tiles missing off the Roof, garden furniture had been blown over then the Dad went to inspect his Koi pond. The Plants around and about had been Damaged by the Winds the water of the Pond appeared murky and the Fake Heron had fallen over, and it's head was under water. On picking up the Heron the Koi owner, found that the Fake Heron had  impaled  his most expensive Fish (about £800's worth) on it's metal beak.