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Met a grrl at an event a few years ago and thought she was quite cute.
We didn't get chance to talk much at the time, but I got her number and we used to talk on the phone a lot, But then it all sort of faded away after a while.
Met her again earlier this year as we were both marshaling at a fell running race.
One of the runners was late back, it was getting dark and we were discussing options such calling Mountain Rescue or sending two marshals back along the course to hopefully meet him head on.
Suddenly she said "He's OK, he's walking back"
Everyone else "?"
"My Mum passed over a few years ago, but she still talks to me. She said he's safe and well, just moving slowly".
Pause in the conversation while everyone else wonders what to say to that.

Met another grrl a couple of years before that. Friend of a friend. I got the impression she was interested in me, but she was just another single mum and I thought I could do better.
I hadn't heard anything of her for years, until she posted on Facebook recently that her kids had been taken off her because she refused to live in a hostel and was living in a tent instead. She was confidant that god was going to return her kids to her though.

Women, they're all mad. The best you can hope for is to find one who's madness is compatible with your own.


 
Posted : 25/09/2013 9:56 pm
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Posted : 25/09/2013 9:59 pm
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Suddenly she said "He's OK, he's walking back"
Everyone else "?"
"My Mum passed over a few years ago, but she still talks to me. She said he's safe and well, just moving slowly".

Well was he?


 
Posted : 25/09/2013 10:14 pm
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Perhaps that's the effect you have on them.


 
Posted : 25/09/2013 10:25 pm
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[i]Suddenly she said "He's OK, he's walking back"
Everyone else "?"
"My Mum passed over a few years ago, but she still talks to me. She said he's safe and well, just moving slowly".
Well was he?[/i]

Yeah, what happened?


 
Posted : 25/09/2013 10:25 pm
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Women, they're all mad

Of course they are dear 🙂

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Posted : 25/09/2013 10:27 pm
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He'd been attacked by Pine Martins, and slain by the side of the track...

* Possibly....


 
Posted : 25/09/2013 10:28 pm
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Do they like cats? 😉


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 7:43 am
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she was just another single mum and I thought I could do better

🙂


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 7:51 am
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😯
A little early for biscuits ,
I'll pop the kettle on and fire up the toaster...


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 7:54 am
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but she was just another single mum and I thought I could do better.

What`s wrong with being a single parent ?


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 7:58 am
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Weirdo attracting weirdos shocker 🙂


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 8:01 am
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[i]she was just another single mum[/i]

You know when you post stuff and it turns out that you're the only one who's ever had that thought because everyone else is, like, 'wtf? and 'are you for real dude?'.

That.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 8:02 am
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but she was just another single mum and I thought I could do better.

Judgemental and downright nasty. 😐


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 8:13 am
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I married a single mother. Thank goodness I did, because this meant that at least there was one civilised child in the family.

Wasn't it the OP who was asking for advice when the police were questioning him about someone being murdered in the woods? Perhaps these women had a lucky escape!


 
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Just who had the lucky escapes ? 😉


 
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but she was just another single mum and I thought I could do better.

I met her. She said you were just another Deliverance type who lived in the woods in a fally-downy shed and she felt she could do better in a tent.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 8:16 am
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I still want to know whether God approves of the tent. Does it have electric hookup and a sewn in groundsheet?


 
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I dont think I have dated anyone without kids since my late 20`s.Does it work the other way round as I was a single dad for many years ?


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 8:33 am
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Twist: the first woman was actually killed on the very fell her ghost was helping to marshall.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:14 am
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oooh, have we found something new to wring our hands about?
BURN THE SINGLEMUMIST! BURN HIM!

I'm a single Mum, and so is my wife.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:21 am
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That photo up there is my mental image of Fast Haggis now and forever more.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:24 am
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[i]That photo up there is my mental image of Fast Haggis[/i]

I'm sure MTG will be very relieved.

Fast Haggis might be quite upset, though.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:25 am
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But,but,but that's a photo of Graham ,honest 🙁

I am more like this

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😉


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:29 am
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Too late pinky pants


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:31 am
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Damn ,busted 🙂

TBF most photos of Graham have something like this

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in the background.

He breaks a lot of the stuff he rides.

Lucky escape girls !


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:34 am
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Lets get back to the real storey!

Did the bloke come walking back???!


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:41 am
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I'm a single Mum, and so is my wife.

its early in the day, how does this work?

ps. i'm a single dad don't shout at me


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:47 am
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I'm more interested in the bloke running the fell rather than someones "love" life..

Did the runner come back or were Mountain Rescue called???


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 9:51 am
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or was he really killed by Pine Martins?


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 10:48 am
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Marin Pine Martins??


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 11:30 am
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Women, they're all mad.

Had been seeing a girl for about 6 months and everything was going very well. She went up to Aberdeen for the weekend. Returned on Sunday and informed me she'd met a guy on the Friday night and was now engaged to him. 😆 Absolutely genuine, first time she'd ever met him.

Turns out she was crazier than a shit house rat. I swiftly made my excuses but she still tries to add me on Facebook despite this all happening 13 years ago. By my reckoning she's now got 4 kids by 3 different fathers, none of whom she's with. Talk about dodging a bullet!


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 11:34 am
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Has anyone linked this to Mumsnet yet? 😉


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 11:40 am
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Only the 2 escapes? With your refreshingly open-minded attitude, and unique sense of style, I'm flabbergasted you're not beating them off with a shitty stick! 😀


 
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Had been seeing a girl for about 6 months and everything was going very well. She went up to Aberdeen for the weekend. Returned on Sunday and informed me she'd met a guy on the Friday night and was now engaged to him. Absolutely genuine, first time she'd ever met him.

Turns out she was crazier than a shit house rat. I swiftly made my excuses but she still tries to add me on Facebook despite this all happening 13 years ago. By my reckoning she's now got 4 kids by 3 different fathers, none of whom she's with. Talk about dodging a bullet!

That's genuinely hilarious. No doubt you were hurt at the time but what a story hahaha.

Closest I've ever came to anything like that is walking into ASDA and almost buying a Haloween costume titled "Mental Ill Patient with Knife and Authentic Blood".


 
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Do you mean Pine [i]Martens[/i]?

8)


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 1:43 pm
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Doc Martens could be vicious .


 
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Were they pining for the fjords ?


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 1:47 pm
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WHAT ABOUT THE 'EFFING FELL RUNNER?

You lot just don't care do you, you have flamed the OP so he's going to keep us in suspense for like ever and ever. Thanks.


 
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[i]By my reckoning she's now got 4 kids by 3 different fathers, none of whom she's with. Talk about dodging a bullet![/i]

Is she called Elaine?


 
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My best mate/climbing buddy met a woman who seemed OK... until she started to reveal that she was a fairly committed member of a cult and was hoping he would also join. This would have involved him going on a weekend retreat where he would wear a cotton smock and leave his watch and everything personal at home, then standing up and admitting to some past mistake, at which they would all attack him and reduce him to a snivelling wreck then rebuild him with love in their way. From then on he would have to give 10% of his salary to the cult.

I was already worried that he might be thinking of going along with all this, then he mentioned that her previous boyfriend had become so messed up by it all that he had killed himself. Happily his sensible old self asserted itself and he gave her a swift heave-ho and we went climbing instead.


 
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Love the way people jump to conclusions over the single mum comment if it allows them to display their moral outrage.
Nothing against single mums, as the present Mrs MTG can verify.
Nothing against anyone who stays in a hostel. A former Mrs MTG had to stay in one with her two kids at one time and spent two days cleaning the place when she first moved in, so I can see why someone might take a tent as an alternative.
Nothing against people who live in tents. Speaks With Her Dead Mum grrl was living on the road in her car when I met her.

It was the "Just another..." bit, not the "Single mum" bit that put me off.
You know when you are looking on dating sites and you get the "I like going out and staying in" ones. The ones who like "Going for walks and curling up on the settee with a good film".
You know, the ones you just skim over looking for someone with a bit of character.
Well, it was like that, but in real life.

Oh, and the fell runner was OK.
It was a race over all the 3000ft peaks in Wales.
I think it was about 45km, except that he was one of only two runners doing the double, about 90km.
He set off a bit later than planned, so it was almost inevitable that it would be dark by the time he finished.
Given that, plus his ability, experience, equipment and previous marshal sightings, the balance of probabilities was that he would be OK.
A vague claim that he was moving slowly was not enough to convince me of any clairvoyant abilities.


 
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So she was actually right then. You could have at least got to know her well enough to ask her mum for the lottery numbers.


 
Posted : 27/09/2013 2:00 am
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Some people attract 'types'. Either mutually or one-way.

My bestmate always seemed to go out with girls who had serious childhood issues. They'd be normal for a month then suddenly whoaa.

Same with girls and loser boyfriends (cant see where they are going wrong??)

OP is this you? 😉


 
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[i]Same with girls and loser boyfriends (cant see where they are going wrong??)[/i]

I think there's a lot of 'I'm the one who can make him change his ways' going on with that situation.


 
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