Later I'll be giving my review on Sweeney Todd and tomorrow I'll be doing my first in depth post on the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest... but for now I must relate a story that one of the girls at work, Olivia, has just told me...
A friend of her old flatmates was babysitting a dog whilst it's owners were on holiday. Sadly, and quite embarrassingly, the dog died. Thinking, for some bizarre reason, she'd need to take it to the vets she put the dog in a suitcase for transportation. Bizarre but hey... it takes allsorts!
So she lugged this heavy suitcase on to the Tube and just to make her load even worse she had to change trains and carry the suitcase between them. On the way a kind gentlemen offered to help her and casually asked what was in the suitcase. Obviously she wasn't going to admit it's real contents so just said a vague "Oh some books, my laptop etc".
The kindly gentlemen was ahead of her on the escalators and when they reached the top he made a run for it... with her suitcase. She never saw it again...
I have never laughed so hard... firstly that poor girl had to explain to the owners that their dog had not only passed away but that there was no body to show for it... then secondly there's the look on that thiefs face when he opened the suitcase and found the body... he he... too good to keep to one's self.
Just goes to show that truth really is stranger than fiction.
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