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Saturday 7 September 2019
COME ON IN AND PULL UP A CHAIR...
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The only similar(ish) thing that I had was regarding my first car. It was written off when a drunk driver ran into me when I was stopped at traffic lights . About 10 months later in my local bank talking to a guy that was in ( he dropped his bank card and I picked it up) anyway on the wag out he went into his car and yes, it turned out it was my old car renovated. Strange as he bought it in a sale in Edinburgh (more amazing they managed to salvage it as it was in some state)
ReplyDeleteThat's just the sort of thing I'm talking about, PM. Just imagine you ordered a taxi one night, and the taxi was your old car, or a pal turned up with HIS new car and it turned out to be your old one. Then, whenever he gave you a lift, you'd be a passenger in your old car. Of course, that second one is only an amazing coincidence if you didn't sell your car to your pal.
ReplyDeleteI can give you a comic related example, Kid. About 1986, a friend of mine whom I used to regularly swap comics with was in hospital and his dad took some comics to him, he'd written my friend's name in biro across the logos to stop them being pilfered- I'm no longer in touch with this gentleman so I don't want to post his real name but let's call him Adam Franklin. After he got out of hospital he kindly, for he was an incredibly generous and friendly soul, lent me a big run of X-Men issues to read, all of which were emblazoned with his name written on by his dad.
ReplyDeleteIn the early 2000s, I was at a comic mart and got talking to a dealer from Blackpool. Had a look through his box of reduced price comics and I found a copy of X-Men 211 with Adam Franklin written in biro across the logo. I held it and felt absolute amazement knowing that I was holding one of the exact comics that I had read many years before. It was a spooky but very very nice feeling.
So I gotta know, DS - did you buy it? Something similar happened to me back around 1971 or '72. I used to stamp my name on the top right-hand corner (from my pov) of my comics, using one of those John Bull 'printing' sets that were once so common. When one of my pals was in hospital with a broken leg, I took him a batch of comics, including Valiant & Smash! (combined issues), etc. Months later, I was going through a box of cut-price comics in my local newsagent's, when I spied some of my Valiant & Smashes (with my name in the corner) and just couldn't work out how they got there. If I ever found out, I've forgotten, but I remember my amazement. And no, I can't remember if I bought them back or not.
ReplyDeleteI did buy it, but sadly it's AWOL right now, seems to have been misplaced while moving house. It must be in a box or bag somewhere, I'm sure it'll turn up again!
ReplyDeleteI hope it's not a valuable issue that's been rendered worthless by having a name scrawled across the logo. "Yes, this issue is worth £150 - wait a sec, I didn't see that name - this issue is worth £1.50." Wouldn't that be a choker?
ReplyDeleteIt's priceless to me, cos it reminds me of days gone by and friends from a less complicated time!
ReplyDeleteJust as I suspected it would be, DS.
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