Going overboard tonight with thinking - but that's what happens when your bored sensless. I was thinking that almost no one knows where my nickname Dodderer comes from.
I was about 28 years old and a building site supervisor and one of my apprentices who I was helping to understand an easier way of doing a particular task - don't ask me what it was I am far too old to remember - anyway after repeatedly showing him what he was doing wrong he finally grasped how it was done. Then turned round and said thanks for that- Yeah like that ever happened - but he did turn to me and said ' you know something your doddering old C*#t. He was about 17 I was 28 and he called me old I couldn't believe it I thought I was still quite young anyway I did like the Doddering reference so I kept it just changed it slightly to Dodderer. The swear word by the meant nothing, swearing in all its forms were just part of the normal way of talking in the trade and very rarely were the words actually used in a hurtfull way.
That's how I became Dodderer
Interesting aint it - probably not dear Phantom reader.
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