RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31256, 31 December 1966, Page 24

RANDOM REMINDER

FORGETMENOTES

It would be a very dull world, if everything was done as it should be. If it were possible to establish a basic joke, it would probably be the man who slips on a banana skin. Human fraility is not always to be deplored: It can give others such a sense of satisfaction. There is a factory worker in Christchurch who decided, before Christmas, to buy himself a bicycle. So he excused himself from his duties and went something over two miles to an auction sale, where he found a machine which appealed to him for its sturdy con*

struction and for its moderate price. He bought it. They then auctioned another bicycle, and he thought that one had possibilities too, so be bought it. Then the madness was upon him. He wound up by purchasing no fewer than 15 bicycles, with the intention of improving their appearance and value and re-selling them. He spent, in all, £42. He arranged for a truck to deliver the 15 bicycles to his place of employment. And he then walked the two miles or more, back to his job. A bank in Christchurch offered us the use of another example of what the

computer age is up against. The bank had a telephone call from a large retail firm, and was asked to inform the firm of the name of a customer who bad paid for a purchase by cheque and had left without signing it. The bank discovered that the customer was a member of its own staff. But he was not in the office to be sent off to the shop to put things to rights. Oh, no. At that time be was away from his desk for a few weeks, working for the Bank Education Service, lecturing at secondary schools on “How to Handl* Cheques.**