9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
1:40 a.m.
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 09:19:16 Ethan Dicks wrote:
problem with that, though, is that I've
occasionally had problems
getting round keys copied successfully. At one place (that I won't
return to), I eventually dragged in the lock because three previous
trips failed to produce a working key.
I use a shop run by an elderly Indian chap. Got his life story the first time
I went in to get a set of keys cut; apparently he feels that because he was a
teenager when his parents moved them all to the UK in the late 40s, and older
than his next-youngest brother by about 10 years, he just hasn't quite
integrated as well as his brothers and sisters. He reckons he just doesn't
have the grasp of the language like they do, and as he gets old and forgetful
it's getting worse. He told me that when he gets excited, say by the
presence of a ?20 note, he starts to forget some English words. Particularly
big complicated words, like "duplication" and "prohibited"...
Gordon