A woman was stunned when the Post Office returned her motorbike stunt rider job application back to her undelivered after 50 years.
Tizi Hodson, 70, from Gedney Hill in Lincolnshire, still got her dream job despite never hearing anything back but later found out her letter had got lost behind a drawer.
Despite the setback Ms Hodson wasn’t deterred and still embarked upon a daredevil career that ended up taking her on jobs all across the globe.
The mystery – which began in 1976 when the application was sent – was finally solved this week when the pensioner opened her post to find the original job application.
Tizi Hodson, 70, from Gedney Hill was stunned when the Post Office returned her motorbike stunt rider job application back to her undelivered after 50 years
She still got her dream job despite never hearing anything back but later found out her letter had got lost behind a drawer. Here Ms Hodson is pictured riding a motorbike
Ms Hodson told the BBC it was ‘amazing’ that the letter was returned to her after so many years had passed.
Ms Hodson moved to Africa where she worked as a snake handler and horse whisperer before she learnt to fly and became an aerobatic pilot and flying instructor
Ms Hodson told the BBC it was ‘amazing’ that the letter was returned to her after so many years had passed.
At the top of the letter is a handwritten note that reads: ‘Late delivery by Staines Post Office. Found behind a draw. Only about 50 years late.’
Ms Hodson doesn’t know who returned the letter, or how it even found its way to her when she has moved house and country so many times in her life.
She said it means ‘so much’ that somebody took the time to return the application and that she even recalls typing it in her flat in London.
‘Every day I looked for my post but there was nothing there and I was so disappointed because I really, really, wanted to be a stunt rider on a motorcycle,’ she said.
Fortunately Ms Hodson didn’t give up on her quest to find an adrenaline-filled career and moved to Africa where she worked as a snake handler and horse whisperer before she learnt to fly and became an aerobatic pilot and flying instructor.
Looking back at the letter she sent at the beginning of her career Ms Hodson said she had to be careful not to tell the people advertising for the stunt riding job that she was a woman because she thought she would have ‘no chance’ of getting an interview.
She added: ‘I even stupidly told them I didn’t mind how many bones I might break as I was used to it.’
Ms Hodson explained how looking back on her life she wouldn’t change a thing.
She said: ‘If I could speak to my younger self, I would tell her to go and do everything I’ve done. I’ve had such a wonderful time in life, even if I have broken a few bones.’
