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Book shop fun and south devon idiocy
In WHSmiths buying some book on jam or something when I was stuck behind a woman buying a birthday present.

Woman - I need to get a book, I think it's about football, for my son's birthday.
Serving man - Do you know the name?
Woman - I'm not really sure
Serving man - Well, do you know if it's fiction or non-fiction?
Woman - No idea. I do know it's a true story though.

One of those occasions where you have to leave the shop for fear of being arrested for laughing.

One other, in a pub in Torquay where a bloke was having a blazing row with his "bitch" as he called her. At one point he backed up his point of view by saying

"Listen bitch, I know everyone in Torquay and they're all saying you've been going behind my back."

Everyone? Does he really? My mum's never mentioned him and she's lived there for over 30 years.
(Thu 10th Jun 2004, 15:22, More)