Running away

[Miss Demeanour]

What with all the fuss and furore over Megan Stammers and Jeremy Forrest fleeing to France and the inevitably that they would have to come home wagging their tails behind them ...it has made me think about how many times when you were a kid that you threatened to run away . Or how many times your own have said the same when you have refused their latest demand .

I certainly remembering storming out of the house when I was young stating I was never coming back , got as far as the end of the road and then thought how am I going to stage manage my return without losing too much face.

I was back within about 5 minutes . No bastard had chased after me and begged me to return as I imagined they should have 

[Nick]

I threatened to run away when I was 7 and my mum made me a packed lunch 

[GROWLER]

I threatened to run away when I was 7 and my mum made me a packed lunch 

+1 

Wonder she didn't offer to take yous to the bus station give you a fiver too.

[Barman]

The ginger shambles runs away!

I'm running away

[GROWLER]

Just one more fledgeling to go after today, and I'll be 'running' away to me 'ut in the woods.

[Miss Demeanour]

If peeps know where you are then is that 'proper' running away like ? 

[GROWLER]

The ginger shambles runs away!

Top top find BM!

[GROWLER]

If peeps know where you are then is that 'proper' running away like ? 

No, but me 'ut in the woods' will be on a dark and dusk secret location  ....( map ref 280/142.4/288.1 for general gifts, pineapples and smokes  pacels drop off purposes only)

Only me one eyed snarling slobbering dog what I haven't actually yet got  will know where it is, so yes, it'll be classed as 'running away', sort of like...ish type thing

[Snoopy]

  Yes ~ I ran away and joined the RAF.... went home again on first leave (after 3 months) and thought to myself "What the f*ck am I doing here?" ~ So left again and finally returned with a wife in tow some years later...... By which time most people seemed to have forgotten why I had left in the first place BUT I HADN'T!

[Darwins Selection]

I still live at home.

Everyone else ran away. 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

I still live in a home.

Everyone else runs away. 

I am not surprised Darwin.

I used to have a small blue checked suitcase which I used for hand luggage on our way to Singapore.  I loved that suit case and all it stood for ( I was very young).  It was that which I packed when I ran away from home aged 6. There was some sort of concrete drainage hole close to home, climbed down into it and sat on the damp gravel at the bottom for ages and ages (probably about 15 minutes.  I left when, what seemed to me, a rather large toad decoded to join me.

My mother was very cross when I got home and sent me to my room to learn two poems to be recited at supper time.

[Barman]

I still live in a home.

Everyone else runs away. 

I am not surprised Darwin.

I used to have a small blue checked suitcase which I used for hand luggage on our way to Singapore.  I loved that suit case and all it stood for ( I was very young).  It was that which I packed when I ran away from home aged 6. There was some sort of concrete drainage hole close to home, climbed down into it and sat on the damp gravel at the bottom for ages and ages (probably about 15 minutes.  I left when, what seemed to me, a rather large toad decoded to join me.

My mother was very cross when I got home and sent me to my room to learn two poems to be recited at supper time.

 

Lovely story - what were the two poems...?

[Just One More]

I bet it wasn't Larkin's 

[Barman]

I bet it wasn't Larkin's 

 

[Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)]

I still live in a home.

Everyone else runs away. 

I am not surprised Darwin.

I used to have a small blue checked suitcase which I used for hand luggage on our way to Singapore.  I loved that suit case and all it stood for ( I was very young).  It was that which I packed when I ran away from home aged 6. There was some sort of concrete drainage hole close to home, climbed down into it and sat on the damp gravel at the bottom for ages and ages (probably about 15 minutes.  I left when, what seemed to me, a rather large toad decoded to join me.

My mother was very cross when I got home and sent me to my room to learn two poems to be recited at supper time.

 

Lovely story - what were the two poems...?

Definitely not Larkin one was

The more it
SNOWS tiddely pom
The more it
GOES tiddly pom

Can remember the whole thing

The other was Cargoes by John Masefield

Hate the bloody thing to this day other than the last verse which is OK IMO.