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Memories From Margaret

March 5, 2021 By Maggi Barnard

It was the day they picked the teams for the school football. The good players were quickly sorted into teams until the only ones left were a group of 13-year-olds who desperately wanted to play football, but had no coach. One of those boys was our son, Rodney, so our eldest son, Jim, a good footballer with no experience in coaching, volunteered to train them and our other son, Alex, stepped up to help.

There was a petrol strike on at the time and we were only allowed $2 worth on al-ternate days. Our VW Microbus was really loaded with the whole football team (14 boys), two coaches, our two girls, two-year-old Michael, a variety of bags and balls, the dog and me. We didn’t have seat belts in those days!

As the boys were to play at Warragamba, I drove into the service station for my $2 worth and whilst the driveway attendant was putting the petrol in the car, I quietly asked him if he would please put some air in the tyres as they looked a bit flat. He glanced in the windows of the microbus and, just as quietly, said: “Would you like me to fill it for you, love?”

The boys hadn’t scored a point in their first few games, but the opposing teams hadn’t scored highly either, so, on the way to the game I told them that if they put points on the board today, I would shout them all KFC on the way home as a store had recently opened in Penrith. They scored! Like dogs with two tails, they couldn’t have been more pleased if they had won the first-grade premiership.

It cost me a mint to buy KFC for the whole tribe, but it was worth every cent.

By Margaret Irwin

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