OUR story about the chap forgetting his wife's birthday reminds Linda FitzGerald in Killin: "Some years ago my husband and I were going on holiday to Florida, via Iceland, with friends.
At passport control in Reykjavik, as the immigration officer handed back our passports he said, 'Happy Birthday' to our friend. The look on her husband's face, who had forgotten in all the excitement of travelling, was priceless."
EVER sold anything second-hand over the internet? A reader sends us a comment from one such site in Brighton where a local posts a picture of a young man, and comments: "Warning. This guy was supposed to buy our washer/dryer machine for £150. He wanted to see it working first and asked if he could do a load of laundry. After he finished he said, 'Let me go and get the money'. Got in his car and drove away with his clean clothes."
A READER was on the train into Glasgow from Whitecraigs when he overheard a young woman tell her pal: "Texting while your driving is really stupid." He was mentally commending her road safety skills when she added: "You're really leaving yourself open to a lot of typing errors."
WE mentioned slow dances, and Jim Scott recalls: "When I worked in UG Glass in Shettleston we had a Swedish apprentice whom we took to the dancing. He was a bit shy and did not have great grasp of English, and asked what he should say to the girl he was dancing with. We said, 'Compliment her, say you like her perfume'. One of the girls later told us that he said she was 'stinking beautiful'."
WELL done to Dundee University after Coronation Street's Caitlin Ryan told her on-screen boyfriend that she was going to Dundee to study art. The yoonie released a statement that it was unable to confirm or deny that she had applied to the "world-renowned" Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and added: "Due to data protection legislation we are unable to discuss individual applicants. Previously, she drew a picture of her boyfriend in the style of Edvard Munch's The Scream but without seeing the rest of her portfolio it would be unfair to speculate on whether or not she had any chance of gaining admission, but it would be no surprise if Caitlin was interested in studying here given our reputation for producing exceptional graduates."
WORKPLACE nicknames continued. Donald McLarty worked in a chemicals factory in Paisley where a young trainee chemist achieved his PhD and pompously demanded to be addressed as Doctor. Says Donald: "The factory floor was a noisy place which made hearing on the phone quite difficult so when a caller from the office asked, 'Is Dr Wilson there?', the answer was, 'Dr Who?' Guess what he was known as after that."
PETER Niven on Bute tells us: "Watching the European Diving Championships on Sunday, I heard the commentator remark that it was unusual to have elite-level competitors from Armenia as that country 'does not have a great depth of diving'.
"That would tend to put me off as well."
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