I don't know if this counts ..but here is my story.
When I was younger I knew this fella he was as tough as nails and would not let anyone cross him without a fight. Now this guy was tough and I mean tough and he was a friend to me and and very few others. (He found keeping friends hard, no points for uncovering why) well we all hung around together Basically up to no good
and we were all little hard men. each of us had heads full of felgercarb and no brains which is a common problem today
On one fine evening doing what felgercarb for brains nomally do we stumbled on a school bus full of special need kids with the local Nuns looking after them. (Both of us knew these Nuns from school and that only when we went!!) . Well while the Nuns where preparing a Disco (the populer thing at the time here) for the kids we noticed the a few of the other local hard men where wondering by and while they did not see us they began to shout insults and upseting the young boys and girls to a point where tears started to flow.
I felt a little sickened at the site of these idots upsetting the kids but before I moved to say anything my tough as nails friend move forward and stood along side the kids with his hands folded across this chest no lie (he must have seen Superman the night before) and told the Idots to get lost.
Well after a few minutes of us explaning the concepts of getting lost to these idots and in not in so many words they left and we were about to move off when One of the Nuns thank us for helping and Invited us to join the Disco.
We neither of us like to dance (well we never went to a disco's anyway) said no but thanks.. the Kids insisted that we came in and joined them. We gave in as said we stay for a few minutes.
We ended us staying most of the evening dancing and having a great time, I had never seen my friend like this before (He had a lot of problem's that I would learn about years later) .
Well to cut this shot he and I where changed boys then as we went to that same disco for the entire summer helping out. I will say this hard tough friend found something that surpried me to. He found God or the sprit of God or just plain goodness in those Special Needs kids, he was a changed person even to this day he is a devoted helper of Children with needs. He drives the bus for them to and from the school and at time to a Disco.
He is still as tough as nails and has few friend from the old days to talk too (most of them ended up in jail or dead from drugs) But he has the undivided love from all of those kids that he sees everyday.
That is my fondest memory of that friend He fell at time we all do but as long as you brush yourself off and get up and walk again. Well you know the rest.
Sorry for this been so long
Taranis
