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Words of wisdom

OUR tale of the old golfer worried about dying reminds a reader of the poster in the waiting room at the Queen Mum's maternity hospital in Glasgow.

He tells us: "It read, 'Have faith, the first few minutes of life are the most dangerous'.

"Someone had added the graffiti, 'The last few are no' too clever either.'"

Heading in wrong direction

DADS who think they're funny continued. A Milngavie teenager was asked by her parents what she would like for her 17th birthday, and she replied a tad hopefully: "Something I can drive."

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