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I worked in a car spares shop which made up car number plates. We had a display on the wall showing the type of plates we could make up while the customer waited. On one occasion, a guy came in who wanted a front plate for his van.
I went out to the back of the shop to start making it up, when I noticed that the registration had the letter O included in it. Unfortunately, I had run out of O,s, so I tried cutting up a Q which didn't work. I then tried joining up two C's but that looked awful.
After 20 mins I decided that it wasn't going to work, so I went back into the shop and said " sorry Sir, I can't make your number plate, I haven't got the right letters in stock" "not a problem" said the customer " I can have that one" he was looking at the display number plates, there was a front number plate with his van registration on it. I didn't charge him.
Date submitted:Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:20:25 +0000Coincidence ID:7873
