In reply to Allan McDonald (Gwydyr MC):
I was once at the climbing wall with a friend of mine, i look out, and 30 metres away i see Johnny walking past. Just about the time i'm going to point my mate to the fact that Dawes is in 'our' wall, he sees my mate, waves to him and strolls directly for us.
He starts chatting amicably and we have a good chat. As soon as he moves on i turn to my friend and go like "so how come you know Johnny Dawes?" and my friend is like "Ah, have you met him too? Nice guy isn't he?". "Well i haven't met him before, but everyone knows who Johnny Dawes is". To which my friend replies "What? is he famous or something? I met him in N. Wales in a pub and then we bouldered together for a bit..."
Story goes, my friend was alone at the Vaynol Arms looking grumpy, Johnny approached him and started chatting with him, and asked him if he was OK. My friend explained that he wasn't too good, as for some reason his debit card wasn't working and he was out of money until he could go to a bank on Monday to sort it out.
To this, Johhny reached into his wallet, handed a wad of notes to a total stranger, and told him to just pay it back into his bank account when he could...
Total legend. And he sold me a book too
Post edited at 14:06