Seamstress's wild ride
By BRYN LEWIS
May 11, 2015, 8 a.m.
Stephen Pearce helped Ingrid Stanley tick an item off her bucket list, taking her on a ride to Point
Lowly on his Harley Davidson motorcycle.
Retired tailor Ingrid Stanley looked a bit out of place speeding out of town on a Harley
Davidson motorcycle recently.
The 63-year-old hitched the Harley ride as a trade in return for volunteering her time to make
curtains at Whyalla Men’s Shed.
Sitting on the back of a Harley is worlds apart from sitting behind a sewing machine but Mrs
Stanley loved it.
“I’ve never been on a Harley before; it was wonderful,” she said.
Men’s Shed president Gary Misan said Mrs Stanley had read an article in the Whyalla News
in late 2014 describing a number of outstanding projects on the shed “wish-list”, including
the need for curtains.
“Ingrid Stanley popped in one Saturday morning unsolicited and said she had seen the story
and was happy, in the spirit of community, to make the curtains for us at no charge,” Mr
Misan said.
Mrs Stanley made the curtains for the common room, games room and computer room with
the shed paying for the materials.
“Although Ingrid didn’t want payment we thought we would acknowledge her generosity of
spirit with a gift voucher at Spotlight,” Mr Misan said.
“Ingrid instead asked if it was possible for us to arrange for her to have a ride on a Harley
Davidson motorbike, apparently one of the items on her bucket list.”
A tailor by trade, Mrs Stanley said she was happy to lend a hand to help the shed as she
admired its work.
Mrs Stanley volunteered expecting nothing in return but said she was thrilled to have ticked
riding a Harley off her bucket list.
“When I turned 50 I decided there were things that a girl had to do,” she said.
The men’s shed teed Mrs Stanley up with Harley owner Stephen Pearce who took her on a
wild ride out to Point Lowly where men’s shed members surprised her with a picnic.
“It was a really lovely gesture,” Mrs Stanley said.
Sitting on the back of a Harley is world’s apart from sitting behind a sewing machine but
Ingrid Stanley loved it.