CHEQUES continued.
Recalls David: “The local bank manager was chuffed to get a rush of new customers to whom he issued cheque books, although the use of these was quite foreign to some. He rang to tell us that he had to write to one of his new customers who was overdrawn by £20. The miscreant apologised for the overdraft, and included a cheque, payable to the bank, for £20.”
Wizard idea
HARRY Potter star Daniel Radcliffe admitted in a recent interview that while off the drink now, he drank heavily during the making of the last two films.
“I don’t blame him,” said one reader, “I had to drink heavily as well to get through them when my girlfriend insisted on going.”
But as John Cotton in Stewarton suggests: “Surely they should acknowledge his heavy drinking and bring out a sequel -- Harry Potter and the Deathly Haddows?”
Onto a winner
THE chap in the pub the other night was discussing the possibility of keeping a greyhound as a pet, but didn’t know what his wife’s reaction would be.
“Why don’t you get one and run it past her first?” a fellow toper suggested.
Battle zone
OUR job interview stories remind Gordon Waddell of his wife, who runs a newsagent’s, receiving a CV from a keen applicant who put down under skills that he was great at the shoot-em-up computer game Call of Duty on his X Box.
Says Gordon: “Disappointingly she didn’t even grant him an interview -- a decision I hope she doesn’t come to regret during a tense stand-off between rival factions of primary two’s from the nearby school.”
Back on dry land
AND our tale of the woman with the bags of washing asking the bus driver to wait until she got her clothes on reminds Gordon Cubie in Bearsden of a colleague who cycled to work, and who wore waterproof overtrousers when it was raining.
He had just come in and was removing his waterproofs when his phone rang. “Can you wait until I take my trousers off?” he told the bemused caller.
Moral maze
CHILDREN’S author Lari Don asked readers where she should set her final First Aid for Fairies book and the winner suggested the Traquair House maze. Reports Lari: “I met the winner there to present her prize.
“A nice man showed us the quick way to the middle, then left us. But all the photographers who arrived got lost.
“It was very dramatic doing an interview while my publisher shouting instructions like ‘left, no the next left, oh you’ve gone too far, go back’.”
We suspect the photographers’ language would have been unsuitable for a children’s book.
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