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Slipping up

ALREADY folk are returning unwanted Christmas presents.

A reader waiting patiently in one store heard the elderly chap in front say the slippers he was given didn't fit, and he suspected there was something wrong with the continental size printed on the baffies. The assistant took the slippers to check they were undamaged, then asked the shopper: "Did you take the tissue out of the toes before trying them on?"

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