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local eccentric
She goes by the unfortunate moniker of "Batty Betty" and has been barred from most of the local supermarkets & shops in town. She would follow innocent shoppers around and hurl abuse at them also frequently reducing poor checkout workers to tears. In the shop where I used to work the store manager tried to justify an attempt to remove her by saying "I'm the store manager" to which she replied "no, I'm the store manager" to which he replied "no, I'm the store manager" etc etc repeat till fade until they both gave up and she continued to tell me that she didn't want me round her house (something I was quite happy to oblige in fact since I had no idea where that was anyway.) Until the authorities finally took her licence away she drove a sportscar and was frequently spotted driving up the A5 at 20mph with a massive queue of traffic behind her. She also used to hide in bushes on the country lanes near the town and jump out flicking V signs at passing motorists. Legend has it that this continued until one day the Polish lorry driver who was on the receiving end of this display took offence...
(Sun 30th Sep 2012, 22:09, More)