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art 1 of 3. Regular readers will know I love weird and wacky stories, even if they are not true. So imagine my pleasure when I came across the sensation of alleged time slips in Liverpool. Various people claim they slipped back in time, usually to the 1950’s or 1960’s. One claimed he slipped back to early 1900’s. He said as he walked down Bold Street the sky went very dark and what had been that year in the decade of the 1990’s changed to early 1900’s judging by the fashion he spied. Also the shops were old fashioned. Gone were the modern day stores as were modern day cars, replaced by horse drawn carriages. There was air there was sound and if he felt more confident he would have interacted with a person. here was an important job to Imagine whipping out your smartphone besomeone done from and the everybody was to show early 1900’s! asked to do it. Everybody Or go a step further and take photoswas sure somebody would dowould it. Anybody or film what you see. What your could have done it, but nobody did phone record? it. Somebody got annoyed about There is the story of a man who that, because it was everybody’s job. walked near to Bold Street and he Everybody could do alleges as hethought turned aanybody corner, was it but nobody realized that everybody faced with a dead end. An old wall wouldn’t endedday uphad that that wasn’t do thereit.theItprevious everybody blamed somebody when suddenly appeared. Like the previous nobody did the what could have man he said skyanybody became suddenly done! darker prior to this obstacle being there. HeAccountability even touched the construction in this day and and age is it was solid. Confused, he back nobody can be blamed inheaded case it upsets the way he came. the culprit and they feel awful. Mental Mostplays of thea stories centre on aAs part health big part in this. period of 1993-1997 apart from the the of a team the one who caused one in the next paragraph. They may by issue can’t be mentioned publically well be Urban Tales and tall ones a boss or teacher. Everybody in aatteam that. Butreprimanded it is thought provoking. Butif the is then equally. But there are three particular stories I will offender keeps quiet about their faux centre on. pas and one of the team discover who This allegedly in not 2006be it is, theone chances areoccurred they may when a lad called Sean admitted he trusted. So if one makes a mistake, fess shoplifted item and ranitout of the all up. Admitanthe mistake, removes shop pursued by a Security Guard. As the distrust and people respect those Sean got to a corner (and the sky went for being truthful. Communication is dark) he turned and carried on running the key to unlock the guilt. but when he looked back he noticed
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STOP BLAMING OTHERS
BE RESPONSIBLE
Throughout the pandemic and lock downs some people to a certain extent became more introverted, looking inwards. Dealing with the climate of fear and in some cases sadly those who are no longer with us hurt us. Social media seemed like a lifeline during dark times. But this huge increase highlighted problems. Crimes and scams increased, communication tended to divide us due to differing personal or social interests. Some joined organisations whotohad a bigger his pursuer was nowhere be seen. voice to he communicate whatinI his could Relieved, stopped and took surroundings. Everybody was wearing centrally see as being negative, despite clothes from the 1960’s and cars were positive rhetoric. We went from Love old fashioned from Thy Neighbour to Ithis willera. beStarting your friend worryinterests he brought out with his modern ifto your align mine. Of mobile phone, but itbecause displayedwe noare all course we didn’t signal.and As he walked back past store equal at the same time all the different. he robbed he noticed it wasn’t the one our nationahead have heSome enteredclaim earlier. As he looked become mentally lazy.world. I have been he could see the modern When dealing certainhim public bodies he took a with look behind it was still in throughout The theLancashire 1960’s. Frightened by his 2021. experience first paragraph in onebus line or another he caught a (modern) to get away. describe communication breakhim downs The Security Guard that chased that he was only a few paces Iasserted experienced. behind the thief but as he got to that When you are chasing an issue corner, the lad had vanished. He was because bemused no by person this. has communicated
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information I get “Somebody must have told you” or “I told her/him to tell you” and those claiming I had not communicated something when I had. This public body representative was adamant I had not said something when I had and would not budge. Black and white printed words are easy to use as proof but this person probably felt safe and thought it was only words so they were safe as it was verbal, my word against theirs. I countered “Can youappear just in wait a The other two stories moment because I recorded May’s edition and a plausible answerthe to the conundrum. But going back to call, I need to scroll through onanmy earlier point, is ofcaller interaction, phone to findwhich it?” The suddenly I pondered on this. If you talk to have back tracked suggesting I may someone from a long ago era and communicated something but hung influence them to take different up the call. They did anot want course to be to one they didaccountable. take, would blamed, be historically in the wrong, that have ramifications on the here and There was another now? Also if you collectin anthe itemsummer from when threedoes public bodies failed talk the 1950’s, it travel with you to back to onepresent another and my wife having to the day? to speak to each of these companies to communicate because they were making claims based on one person’s mistake who did not want to be blamed for getting it so wrong. We are all human, own up. Our standing will improve if we do. www.lancmag.com
