No smoke
OUR story about Airdrie made a slighting reference to neighbouring town Coatbridge. Derek McKay at the Big Tree Bar in Coatbridge counters with: "Our town was a leader in industrialisation and was known for coal and steel. Airdrie was known for stealing coal."
Bottled it
SOME of you might look back to your youth and identify with the 20-year-old girl, Lizzie, who admitted on social media this week: "Told my Dad I ran out of alcohol and didn’t have any money to buy any for the weekend... so he gave me the huge bottle of vodka from the cupboard that I stole and replaced with water when I was 16. Life really does come back to bite you on the backside."
On a roll
MORE on supermarkets as James Cairns tells us: "My dad was once sent out to buy a jar of Bovril. He arrived at Asda, and after scouring the aisles for a few minutes asked a young lad who was loading the shelves. He led him well away from where he was looking, down past the detergents, and pointed at the shelf. My dad looked bemused and said, 'Where's the Bovril?' The helpful assistant said, 'Sorry, I thought you said bog roll'.”
Glassy stare
OF course readers were reminiscing after we mentioned that great Glasgow dance hall The Dennistoun Palais yesterday. As entertainer Andy Cameron recalled: "There used to be a group of posers who stood in one corner of the floor, wearing all the latest fashions, but never danced. They just stood there being pretty and wearing out mirrors. One Monday night, which was when you danced to records, I was dancing past this corner with my partner to Billy Eckstine and Sarah Vaughan’s Passing Strangers when said partner, who worked in the cigarette factory on Alexandra Parade judging by her smoker's cough, remarked, 'Look at them – it’s like dancing by Frasers' windae'."
Shopped
GROWING old, continued. Says a Glasgow south side reader: "You realise you are getting old when you drive through the city and tell your passengers what that building over there used to be."
Cleaning up
WE mentioned East Renfrewshire being the happiest place in Scotland due to factors including life expectancy and earnings. It reminded a reader of The Diary story about the Newton Mearns mother in East Renfrewshire who told her teenage son, a Hutchie pupil, of the dire consequences if he didn't tidy his room by the time she returned. On her arrival home she found a strange woman in her house – her son had used his pocket money to hire a cleaning agency for the day.
Uniform reply
A READER visiting the Beatson cancer care centre in Glasgow watched as a patient got lost trying to find the exit in the maze of corridors and ended up passing the nurses' station twice. A nurse tried to help by asking: "Are you on your way out?" "Thankfully not yet" the patient replied.
Melting moment
THE cute things kids say: Helen Houston tells us about a young child leafing through her parents' wedding album. "In one picture the photographer had posed the girl's mum sitting on the ground with her wedding dress laid out around her. 'Oh mum, you're melting!' declared the worried wee girl."
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