Melvyn talks about the comfort of strangers
Melvyn talks about the comfort of strangers
Hello it’s Melvyn, um, it’s Thursday, it’s Thursday what are we..28th. I been in the erm depression um and also um I’ve met – I’ve met people that um have been really nice to me. I met a guy when I was out with my dogs walking. I’ve seen him before and I met him funny enough, I happened to be in town shopping, I’m talking some time ago probably over a year ago and he very often used to be outside sitting there with his dog. He got a young dog, a young puppy and we got talking then and he seemed a really really nice guy; he’s got mental problems he’s got um.. but also, unbeknown to me, a year ago his father had a stroke, he was 86, and um he said that his father was really, up until that point, his father was really active – you know, played golf a couple of times a day, went shopping, and you know, always on the go. For him to be how he is now, he said he’s paralysed down one side, and he’s still in hospital and being fed, and um, that was unbeknown to me, you know I’ve learnt this since my wife has died and I met him the day when I was out with my dogs and we got chatting and I just broke down and cried. You know what I’m like, I’m very emotional and he put his arm around me and just said what’s the matter, and I told him and then he told me about his father and since then I’ve met him a couple of times out with the dog, and we’ve had a cuddle – put our arms around one another and you don’t know how much that meant to me because he’s such a nice person.
Funny enough he lives in the road me and my wife used to live in – he lives in number 78 where we used to live in 71 so we was the opposite side of the road to him. But he said you know, anytime you feel like coming round, come round, or give me a tinkle and we’ll have a chat. But I haven’t done, because I don’t want to put any pressure on him because of his father – it’s horrible having to see your father like that I can remember once, being out side of the café with his father so, yeah.
My son came over Christmas eve, my son Gregory and stayed with me Christmas day and went back boxing day because he lives with my daughter Victoria.
