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Originally Posted by BENT_8

Had a similar thing happen many moons ago.
Being in a small country town (Maitland SA for those playing at home) everyone basically knew each other and would look out for one another.
One evening, whilst sitting on the bench out the front of our take away shop I noticed a young lad had a blown headlight as he pulled into the car park out front.
I wasn't going to say anything, as, like most of the young folk, they rarely listened, but upon his exit from the shop I mentioned the globe being out.
His reply wasn't rude, he just smiled and said it had been blown for a few days.
Not quite the response I had envisaged...

So off he goes, on his way.

About 5 minutes later my lad rang and asked to be picked up to come get his dinner from the shop, so I jumped in the car and headed in his direction.
At the far end of the main Street I could see the local with the young fella in tow giving his VR the once over.
Being a local I knew the cop a bit so I pulled up and said g'day.
he was in the process of writing him up for the light and anything else which caught his eye.
I had a quick word, explained that I had just told him about the blown light and had offered to change it with one I had at the house if he gave me 5 minutes.
In them days you couldn't buy anything but takeaway after 12pm Saturday arvo so he had no options.
So the good man put his pen away and after a few more minutes of general banter we were all on our way.
I led the young fella down to our place and as promised, gave him a globe from my set of spare headlights and sent him on his way.

A month or so later I ran into him in the front bar, was a cheap night for me from what I remember...

This is why I have been considering moving to a small country town away from the big smoke.