No-one on here knew Eddie, except me of course. Eddie was our window cleaner/gutter emptier/drain unblocker etc. He was well known locally and had been doing our windows for about 15 years. The thing was though, we didn't even know his surname. In fact almost no-one did. He wasn't married and had never had kids.
As he was somewhere between 65 and 75, I would say he was always pretty fit, in fact the worst you could say about him was that he probably could have been a bit more a bit more careful with his haircare. He could be seen all over the area riding his bike with a ladder over one shoulder and used to tell me about the 1930's Riley he had in his back yard and all the inventions he had come up with but didn't know how to file a patent.
About 20 years ago he found a pair of 5 year old twins hiding in his shed where they'd run away to to hide from their Mother's abusive boyfriend. He persuaded them to go home and gave evidence to the Police and in Court that resulted in the boyfriend being locked up and then forbidden by injunction from going to Denton for life. He then kept an eye on them and even paid for their holidays.
He became so friendly with the family, as the boys grew up, he'd even give them his PIN number and ask them to get money from the ATM for him. Not only that, but he'd even included them in his will. Lately though, he found out the trust he'd put in them had been betrayed as they were taking out more than they should have.
Last Friday, he went to his Doctors having had chest pains for several days. Instead of calling an Ambulance as he should have, the Doctor wrote him a letter as a referral to Hospital and he went the next day. While he was being assessed he suffered a massive heart attack and was incapable of being resuscitated.
It would appear he changed his will a few days before he died.
Why am I putting all this when nobody on the FF has a clue who he was? Well
simply because he is a dying (sic) breed. One day, while cleaning the window of one of his regulars he noticed the back door was open. Instead of moving on and ignoring it, he stayed in the back yard, in the rain for 4 hours until the householder came home. We are rapidly losing the characters in our society and Eddie certainly came under that heading.
After he'd gone, we realised how little we knew about him, but one thing's for sure; he knew a hell of a lot about everybody else.
Ta-ra Eddie, see you on the other side.
As he was somewhere between 65 and 75, I would say he was always pretty fit, in fact the worst you could say about him was that he probably could have been a bit more a bit more careful with his haircare. He could be seen all over the area riding his bike with a ladder over one shoulder and used to tell me about the 1930's Riley he had in his back yard and all the inventions he had come up with but didn't know how to file a patent.
About 20 years ago he found a pair of 5 year old twins hiding in his shed where they'd run away to to hide from their Mother's abusive boyfriend. He persuaded them to go home and gave evidence to the Police and in Court that resulted in the boyfriend being locked up and then forbidden by injunction from going to Denton for life. He then kept an eye on them and even paid for their holidays.
He became so friendly with the family, as the boys grew up, he'd even give them his PIN number and ask them to get money from the ATM for him. Not only that, but he'd even included them in his will. Lately though, he found out the trust he'd put in them had been betrayed as they were taking out more than they should have.
Last Friday, he went to his Doctors having had chest pains for several days. Instead of calling an Ambulance as he should have, the Doctor wrote him a letter as a referral to Hospital and he went the next day. While he was being assessed he suffered a massive heart attack and was incapable of being resuscitated.
It would appear he changed his will a few days before he died.
Why am I putting all this when nobody on the FF has a clue who he was? Well
simply because he is a dying (sic) breed. One day, while cleaning the window of one of his regulars he noticed the back door was open. Instead of moving on and ignoring it, he stayed in the back yard, in the rain for 4 hours until the householder came home. We are rapidly losing the characters in our society and Eddie certainly came under that heading.
After he'd gone, we realised how little we knew about him, but one thing's for sure; he knew a hell of a lot about everybody else.
Ta-ra Eddie, see you on the other side.
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