meeting the girls
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Whilst at university in the 60s I spent a weekend with a friend in Belper, and whilst there we chatted to a couple of girls in a pub. We all got on fine but as it was only a short visit I bade the lasses farewell at the end of the evening and never expected to see them again. Some months later I was in digs in Bolton, at a house where the landlady never took in women and hadn't ever done since she started the business many years earlier. But one day she relented and accepted a couple of young ladies - just the once mind - who needed to stop for the night. I was quite astonished to meet them in the morning at breakfast, they were the two whom I'd met months earlier in Belper.
Date submitted:Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:49:26 +0000Coincidence ID:5871
