Change in Ways
Tinhead only started to see the error of his ways when he nearly killed his younger sister. While playing with fireworks he caused a lorry to swerve, and crash into his house where his sister Melanie was sitting watching television, luckily she was not badly hurt.
After this incident Tinhead had a change of attitude and with encouragement from Sinbad tried to join the Army. Tinhead passed the entrance interview and test with flying colours and really looked forward to life in the army, but was very disappointed when he arrived at the training camp only to be told that he could not join the Army after all because of a problem with his hearing.
After this setback Tinhead refused to go out the for weeks feeling very dejected, until he found employment at a builders yard. It was not long before he was up to his old tricks, making money by selling building materials direct to customers and pocketing the cash.
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