Giving children cold shoulder
WE may have given the impression that older Scots do not cope with new technology; not always the case. An Ayrshire reader was at his golf club where a fellow member was fiddling with his mobile phone, and explained that he could use it to turn on or adjust his central heating at home.
Our reader said that sounded a great way of putting on the heating when you were heading home. “Oh I don’t use it for that,” said his fellow golfer. “I monitor the temperature my teenage children have turned it up to, and can turn it down without them realising.”
Going great guns
WE have also suggested that some businesses in Scotland are less than welcoming. On the other hand, Scott Barclay recounts: “On a visit to South Uist we were the sole occupants in a local hotel. The owner poured our first drinks then told us to help ourselves thereafter as his wife was in Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, and he finally had peace and quiet to watch The Guns Of Navarone all the way through.”
Cabbie code
BUT sadly our story about the surly taxi driver reminded Gill Lamberton: “I’ve always extolled the friendliness of Glasgow taxi drivers to my Aberdeen friends until last weekend on a shopping trip to Glasgow. When given the address of our apartment on Clydeside, the driver asked, ‘where is that?’ We politely pointed out that was his job and would he like the postcode? He replied, ‘postcodes are for posties not taxis’.
“His mood didn’t improve when we all fell about laughing.”
Picture this
SOME discussion yesterday on singer Kate Bush backing Prime Minister Theresa May. It made a few left-wingers question their love of her music. As Paul O’Hagan put it: “Kate Bush is a fan of Theresa May? If Debbie Harry says something nice about Nigel Farage that is my teenage memories ruined forever.”
Sole survivors
TODAY’S piece of whimsy comes from Jake Lambert who says: “Maybe aliens do try and come to earth, but they disintegrate in the atmosphere, leaving only their shoes to fall on to telephone wires.”
Sadly missed
SAD to read the obituary of Rangers defender Davie Provan in The Herald yesterday. Everyone who met him says he was a real gentleman. As one fan posted on a Rangers fan website: “I remember meeting him at the Services Club at Motherwell when fellow former player Michael Mols was there. The crowd were shouting for Mols, and
I said to Davie, why are they not shouting for you? His reply was, ‘you must be an old git to remember me’.”
Having a knees-up
SIGNS you are growing old continued. Says Angela Fotheringham: “You know you are old when your knees give a more accurate weather forecast than the Met Office.”
Take note
DAFT news story of the day yesterday was vegetarians getting upset about traces of animal fat being used in the manufacture of the new plastic Bank of England £5 notes. John Leathley mused: “If vegetarians and vegans don’t like £5 notes because of animal fat, they should stop eating them.”
Doling it out
WESTMINSTER MP and deputy leader of the SNP Angus Robertson admitted that Scotland would face challenging economic circumstances even after independence. Says reader Bruce Skivington: “Not half as bad as his own economic circumstances, as he would be an ex-MP on the dole.”
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