The season is now in full swing and it’s great to see our regular buyers and sellers back again, there are a lot of tourists & holiday-makers around all making for great Community Car Boot Sales. Be nice to the tourists CORNWALL needs them! Over 20 odd years at FALMOUTH Lou & I have got into a routine to prepare the Rugby Club for its weekly Car Boot Sale. We start by putting out all the directional signs in the surrounding areas then set up the field to the restricted areas allowed. Next we head for ROWE’S to buy our weekly allowance of one vegetarian pasty each, I drop Lou off at the roundabout and go round the block then pick her up again. A few weeks ago we did this routine I pick Lou up to go back to the Car Boot but she tells me that I have to go round the block again because when I dropped her off earlier she noticed a £10.00 in a drain! “So if you drop me off again I will get one of the litter grabbers and get the £10.00 out of the drain” Suddenly I bacame Victor Meldrew “I dont believe it! You must be mad to do that in Falmouth where everyone knows us, take that jacket off its advertising CARBOOTSCORNWALL oh my God she is going to ruin our reputation” the car door open and she is gone! The boot opens and she ‘GRABS the GRABBER’ I slope off and wait for the ‘haul’ Next I look in the car mirror and I can see Lou in the middle of the main road bending down over this drain with this grabber and out comes this brand new crispy £10.00 note! With the greatest grin of satisfaction on her face ever as she punches the sky shouting “Oh Yes” A passing student witnessed the incident “Nice one lady, Nice one” “I cannot believe I saw that” said I “Get back in the car before we are recognised, I bet the security cameras have got a recording of that” I had to congratulate her on pretty good eyesight and having the balls to go ahead with her High Street fishing! ‘FORFEIT’ To go to the same drain with the GRABBER and pose for this story! This is totally true BUT how did the tenner get there in the first place? What would you have done? I would have walked on but I had to do as I was told! Geoff UPDATE! Ann handed me a piece of paper with numbers of a missing ten pounds and asked if they matched the ones on Lou’s found tenner! She will try every trick in the book that Ann and it is TRUE she tried to make a claim and ruin Lou’s day. She is so careful with her money that Ann, her and Marge love a ‘wee tipple’ so I have heard and one of them the council brings the bottle bank to them! X Deny it Ann!! MABE Sunday 1.00pm-remember! Geoff x