FantasistsEddie Spunkbubble says: I used to know a sad case who fancied himself as a bit of a 007 and bragged that he always carried a loaded 9mm pistol in his attache case "just in case". Overheard by an off-duty copper, he was asked to make good on his claim. A packed lunch, red face and a stern warning "not to act the twat" and he never did it again. Tell us of Walter Mitty types.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jun 2014, 11:40)
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Green CardI was once listening to a guy at a party, who was banging on about how he had a Green Card to work in America, but couldn't use it because (I think) his girlfriend (who naturally lived in a different town) was about to give birth. To twins. He was offering the card to anyone who wanted it -- of course, they're not usually transferrable, but apparently his was a special one (because of his contacts in the Government) which he could assign to anyone he liked.
Gleefully I told him that I planning to work in the States for a couple of months, and I'd be really interested in the Green Card, in case I decided to stay.
"Oh, right, yeah," he said, "We'll definitely have to get together before you go, sort it all out."
"Well, how about right now?" I replied, "I'm leaving in two days," and I flashed the plane ticket and stack of dollars that I'd just picked up that afternoon.
His face was a picture. Strangely he never called the next day, as he'd stutteringly arranged, before suddenly remembering he had to be somewhere else.
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