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- Origin believed IRISH. Anon.
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- Well I couldn't believe it at first.. I tried it out again and it worked ..
- so I wrote to the Times and told them.. I had a NEW THING WORTH LIVING FOR,
- they kept my letter for about a fortnight and wrote telling me they didn't
- think they would put it in the paper, because people weren't interested in it.
-
- Well I was shook up a bit because I didn't have any notion what to do with
- it if they weren't going to put it in the paper, so I took it to me mate
- and he just laughed in me face and said I was a communist, but there was this
- other man there, who was a school teacher so I told him I had a new thing worth
- living for, he didn't believe me at first so I showed it and he took it home
- with him, then bought it back saying, it was very good and he shook me hand,
- he said I'd become famous for it then he advised me to take it to a Priest first
- because I was most probably in need of spiritual guidance about it.
-
- Well I told the Priest about it in the morning and he wasn't pleased with me
- at all, he said they had found out all the things worth living ages ago, and
- I wasn't doing any good thinking of a new one. But then he calmed down a bit
- and said I should go and see if I needed a licence for it.
-
- So I saw the blokes at the licencing office, they made a proper laugh over it
- and the one I showed it to called over his mates and they just pranked about
- with it and laughed till the boss came from behind.
- And says he "what is it ?" so I told him, he said "you dont need a licence for
- one of those now go home!", then he got feeling sorry for me and says "if its
- a new idea mate why don't you go to the bank and get a loan to develop it"
- thats what inventors do!".
-
- Well they were very kind to me at the bank and I got shown straight to the
- manager, he sat in a plush office and gave me a big smile, but I didn't trust
- him from the start.. He asked me straight how much I needed ? I couldn't name
- a figure, so he asked me what I wanted it for, so I told him, I'd found a new
- thing worth living for and he rang the alarm bell see, thought I was looking
- for trouble see, well then the police was in on it and they had a long talk
- about it patient like and said they didn't understand what I was on about and
- sent me to see a Pschychiatrist.
-
- He was very kind, the kindest of the lot, and he asked me what was wrong with
- me, I said there wasn't anything wrong with me, it was all these others...
- He smiled when I said that and said " I understand" then he asked me of my Mum
- and Dad and how they were, and when I'd taken the first Girl out. So I asked him
- what that had got to do with it ? he said we would find out about that later,
- he was very mysterious. So I stayed there for half an hour and came back the
- next week to the same fellow but by then he couldn't see anything wrong with
- me, and if I'd found out a new thing worth living for for I must just be lucky.
-
- Then he said I ought to talk it over with me wife before I saw anyone else
- about it, and she said there was a whole howdydoo for finding a thing like that
- out and getting into trouble, and she said, I must burn it, well I didn't burn
- it and I didn't have it in me to burn it.
-
- I went back to work as usual but when I was walking down the street last
- Thursday, I met this little kiddy and a bright looking little kid he was!
- and says I do you want this Son ? I knew he'd take it.. He says " what is it
- mister ?" so I said Its something worth living for son, a new one.. He said
- OK and he took it. I haven't seen it since, but I'm sorry in a way I had to
- part with it.
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- First transmitted October 1989
- Repeated by request July 1991.... Mike G8AMG @ GB7LWB
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