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Diner pays bill after 13 yearsDiner pays bill after 13 years.
A restaurateur spoke of his amusement at finally receiving the money for a £10 curry a customer forgot to pay for 13 years ago.
Police appealed for help in finding the restaurant owner in March after the absent-minded diner contacted them via an anonymous letter.
The customer explained in the letter how he forgot to pay for a meal at an Indian restaurant in Mumbles, Swansea, south Wales, in 1996, but could not remember the name of the establishment.I can’t help but laugh at The Anonymous Letter, as if calling in and handing it over would have caused World War Three.. “Arrrghhhhh There he is, there’s the man who caused us all that stress by not paying for his meal”.. Although.. I did write “Sorry For The Inconvenience” on the envelope..
Library book returned 70 years late
A library book borrowed before war broke out in 1939 has been returned – 70 years overdue.
Iris Chadwick took out the score of the musical Rose Marie from Cubitt Town Library on the Isle of Dogs, east London, when she was 13-years-old.
The drama of war breaking out meant she forgot to return the book and it has remained in her piano stool until now.I borrowed one when I was seven.. I was hoping the library would have closed down by now, and out of all the big ones that have closed down, this tatty little shed has stayed open.. Magic from far and near.. And anyway.. All this lady had to say was that the book got ruined in the war.. Her word against theirs.. :lol:
@will wrote:
@woohoo wrote:
Library book returned 70 years late
A library book borrowed before war broke out in 1939 has been returned – 70 years overdue.
Iris Chadwick took out the score of the musical Rose Marie from Cubitt Town Library on the Isle of Dogs, east London, when she was 13-years-old.
The drama of war breaking out meant she forgot to return the book and it has remained in her piano stool until now.I borrowed one when I was seven.. I was hoping the library would have closed down by now, and out of all the big ones that have closed down, this tatty little shed has stayed open.. Magic from far and near.. And anyway.. All this lady had to say was that the book got ruined in the war.. Her word against theirs.. :lol:
i bet her libarary fines were HUGE!
People like her who put Libraries out of business.. :lol:
I found, years after I left school, that I still had a library book out. The day I finished school after my A-levels, I dumped my briefcase in the garage and left it there, where all the stuff in it went mouldy, including a forgotten library book. I did keep the book for a while, but it was very dull and not worth much, then I think I threw it away.
A few years later I’d become a qualified librarian, working in public libraries and sending out letters threatening to take people to court who had failed to return their overdue books after repeated reminders!!!!
…..Ah! But I’d never received a remider for the school library book, so it was different! :lol:
I suppose it was, but it was a mistake and I never got round to posting the book back.
Re the public library – I don’t think many of the people who got letters actually ended up in court – only those who had lots of books overdue or a particularly expensive book. Otherwise we just wrote off the overdue books. I sometimes used to get sent out to call at peoples’ homes to try and get overdue books back – sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t.But one of the worst things was when we discovered that another library within the same county library service had STOLEN some of our books. The way this had happened is we’d lent them to the other library because readers had requested them but they didn’t have the titles in stock. But that library had changed the ownership status and merrily kept the books on their shelves after the reader had returned them!!!!
fancy a libarary stealin books. i thought they were all council ran so would it realley matter?
I think it’s what’s called ‘cashiering’ in the army – when stuff is nicked by one part of an organisation from another part. It isn’t theft really, because all the books belong to the County Council, but it’s still not nice when you lend books to another library in good faith and they just decide to keep them!!!
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