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No Osteopathy for Old Pops
My dad, eh, been out and about chopping trees down all his life. He’s an active sort of guy, likes using saws and hammers and stuff – and so when he was presented with opportunity to remove the (very heavy) cover of his well (he lived up in the hills at this point) he jumped at the chance. Much to his surprise, he did his back in. He really needed to see an osteopath.
I found this out when I went to visit him in Whitley Bay (he was visiting his parents – my grandparents – and so was I, that’s why I was there) and he got out of his old green Rover (it’s not green anymore – red) and he was bent double – such was the incident involving the well cover.
As he explained his error around the plates of boiled chicken that his mum had prepared, I suggested he needed to go and see an osteopath. He thought this was a shit idea, being the man of the hills that he was.
Nowadays he’s modified his thoughts on osteopathy, living as he does away from the windy hills and nasty well covers. Now he lives in a nice semi in Edinburgh, with central heating and TV and a nice nearby corner shop selling discount tins of food (because they’re largely out of date). He hasn’t encountered anymore wells and stands straight as a rod.
