'Watching from the pub' reminds me of my younger years when they were building a drive through bottle store at the Woolston Tavern (about 1970) and they had set 3 metre tall pipes in concrete to support the roof. One of the old alky regulars leaned his bike against a pole just as we were walking along so we stood on shoulders and lifted his bike over the pole so it went through the frame, then went in for a beer. After a couple of hours the old boy left and we killed ourselves watching him trying to get on his bike, including retracing his arrival steps and trying to figure out how he had managed to get the pole through the frame. After about 10 minutes of laughing we went out and got his bike off the pole. He was so grateful he shouted us a couple of jugs!
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