Pub Scam Operation in West End - Silly me

Off-topic
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Heres what happened a couple of Fridays ago in Marble Arch…

Mate and me on the Lash - old boy on our table starts talking to us.

He’s 81 years old - very dapper - says he served for 36 years as a Sergeant Major in Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders.

Course we buy him a beer andlisten to his stories .

After about 45 minutes he gets up to go.

He says to me that "Sorry to trouble you but I’m short of cash to get home - I have some 1st clas stamps on me, you wouldn’t mind buying them off me so I can pay the bus fare "

Course not … old soldier? No problem…

He gives me 15 1st class stamps and I give him the money for them (£4.80 )

NEXT MORNING I look at the stamps - instead of 1st on them the figure says 1p - ie 15 pence worth and I gave him £4.80!!!

The old codger! Of couse in a digy pub you don’t notice…

Apparently he does this around the west end - someone else got done when he sold them 1p stamps for £1

…grrr … See? A mug born every minute…

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So now that you are broke maybe you will come to reason and buy a jap…

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Not that broke!

I mean yes I will I definatley will…

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you’re the kind of person that keeps “Watchdog” in business.

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if he was really old you might have got some penny blacks

well done you…its called …HELP THE AGED

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no probs us getting xmas cards from you then???

now you got the stamps…

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I,ll never be able to look Shane in the face again without thinking about Recorded Delivery !!

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Clever old coffin dodger. Hehe. Those years avoiding bullets in HM armed forces must have taught him a thing or two…

Fair dos to him - he didn’t con you out of your house or bank account. A free pint and enough to get him one or two more.

Just think of it as social security and a good pub story.

Never trust an old person!

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Gotta admit I have a sneaking admiration for how he did it.

Pub is 100yds from where I work and I know he goes there regularly so the temptation to take his dentures out and stick em where the sun don’t shine is veeerrry strong

However I was the real twat in this story so I’ll put it down to experience…

…on the other hand he caught someone else at the office the other night ( maybe he knicks Gixxers at weekends too…)