I used to work in West Bromwich years ago, and Boots had a sign in the window, free West Bromwich Albion Tickets for the next game, as they sponsored the team.
My mate was a keen fan, so he goes into Boots, but he was gone quite a long time, eventually he came out.
I said, did you get the tickets?
He said no and showed me what he had got... a packet of condoms.
I said why didn't you get the tickets,
he said ... I was too embarrassed to ask for West Bromwich Albion football tickets so I got these instead.
:lol
True story,
When I got married the first time, I was young and even more naive.
We got married in the morning, and had a wedding Lunch for all the guests. We hired the hall for the whole day, so between lunch and the evening do there was a bit of free time, so we kept the bar open, and decided to have a couple of hours for all the old fogies who only see each other at funerals, Christenings, and Weddings to catch up with out the loud noise of disco.
While this was going on, my Bride and I decided to pop over to Ramsgate and visit my Grandad who was dying in Hospital and obviously could not make the wedding. We were still dressed in all our wedding gear, so caused quite a stir in the hospital, but it was so nice to see the look on his face, to see his favourite grandson all togged up to the nines, and about to suffer the same life as him
Anyway, my Dad, had a lovely old Wolseley, which we used as one of the wedding cars, so it had all the Wedding Ribbons on it. He drove us over to the hospital, and on the way back, he asked if I would pop and get him a couple of extra rolls of film for the camera. He stops right outside the doors of Boots, stopping on the double Yellow lines, so I dive out the back of the car, leg it into Boots, and come back out with a tiny paper bag, and jump back into rear of the car.
At this point, instead of driving off as I expected, I see my Dad is killing himself laughing, and literally wiping tears from his eyes, but I have no idea why, and neither does my bride. Finally, he stops laughing for long enough, to explain what it must have looked like to other people to see the wedding car pull up outside a chemist, the groom leap out, rush inside and come back out just as fast, then dive into the back of the car, with his bride, armed with a small package. Just as well we did not have tinted windows...:augie
