A double

Last Saturday I met my daughter and granddaughter in a very large out-of-town garden centre which had an amazing seasonal display of every and anything you might wasnt to buy for Christmas. As we approached an aisle that was semi-covered over to best display the huge range of Christmas lights, I asked my granddaughter how she got on with her recent eye test. That prompted me to ask if she could see colours ok - as my late father (her Great Grandad) was colour blind. I was explaining that he saw everything in shades of grey, so when we use to go to football at Chelsea (as fans) the pitch would appear to be one shade of grey as would the Chelsea blue kit. I was just saying that although he saw them as grey, he would know if another team was wearing a red shirt - like Arsenal......... Just at that moment, a 7yr old boy, coming in the opposite direction, pushed between the two of us and my daughter. As he did so his raincoat brushed open to reveal he was wearing a full Arsenal kit! My daughter and I stood there open-mouthed and speechless. The store was very busy as we paid for our goods and left. It was now raining hard outside and there were queues of traffic waiting to get parking spaces and another queue of traffic trying to get out of the car park. I decided I should pop back inside to visit the toilet and so we all went back in. After washing and drying my hands I opened the door between the toilet and the store at exactly the same time the boy in the Arsenal kit was pushing it to enter the toilet! The precise timing of both incidents freaked me out! This in a store where some 1,500 people were shopping. But it didn't stop at that! For some reason my daughter and I started talking about all the deaths of celebrities in 2016 and she mentioned "another one yesterday". I told her it was Robert Vaughn, the actor who in the 1960s had starred in The Man From UNCLE. As I said that we were outside in the rain and trying to cross the queues of incoming traffic to get back to our parked car. There were at least 500 cars in the car park but "OMG! Look at that car number!" I said to my daughter. It was a very rare, short personalised number plate on a Mercedes. Well, obviously unique, but odd for being so short. It was 50 LO, but it read as SOLO. "What about it?" asked my daughter. "Solo" I said. "Napoleon Solo was the surname of the character played by Robert Vaughn in The Man From UNCLE!"