Aug 11, 2013
The Bank was accused of ignoring great women figures in British history when it ditched prison reformer Elizabeth Fry
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The Bank was accused of ignoring great women figures in British history when it ditched prison reformer Elizabeth Fry
After some controversy, a new design for the Bank of England £10 note has now been chosen. Here's an EXCLUSIVE sneak peek at what we'll soon be calling the Ben Pound Note, or "Benner"! If it's a success, the government is considering switching the entire UK permanently to the Cumberquid. Can you imagine it? A British currency that the whole world will be desperate to get its sweaty hands on...
Jane Austen is going to be on a £10 note? That's brilliant! :)
Exciting news!!! Jane Austen to grace the British 10-pound note!
I'm a Special Boy
I'm sure everyone's had one of those moment in there lives were they thought of something, ether funny or trivial, and then uncontrollably just blurted out exactly what they were thinking. Well.....I had one of those moments earlier today, in the middle of ASDA....yeah. Get some popcorn kiddies, this is gonna be a long story.
So last week was one of those weeks were no matter what I did, money had to go somewhere, leaving my bank account looking very sorry for itself, but filling up my wallet so I could do all that needed to be done.
After paying bill's, feeding myself, and the purchasing of birthday gift's, I was under the impression that all that was left in my wallet was a £10 note and some loose change. Not good for me since this was all I had to feed myself with for the next week, good thing I don't eat much.
Skip forward to today, Monday the 28th, as per my regular routine Monday is my food shopping day. So after a mind numbing afternoon at Zodiac I head to are local ASDA store for the purchasing of what was gonna be this weeks food rations, and as I'm walking around the store making careful note of how much everything I'm picking up costs.
Ones I got the essentials, and made sure I had enough change to get more milk later in the week, I head to the checkout, line up, and wait for my turn.
The checkout lady was old and didn't look to impressed already, probably from all the heat, but was pleasant enough when it came to my tern to be served. She asked if I needed a hand packing my shopping, I said no, things went on as they were meant to be, me packing my food away as quick as possible so I could get out of that super heated death trap.
Ones everything was bagged she tells me how much I owe and I get my wallet out my bag, putting my fingers on the £10 note and pulling it out.
As I'm about to hand her the note I look at it, to make sure I wasn't handing her a reseat for anything she didn't need to know about....I'll leave you to draw your own conclusion on that one...but I notice that I'm about to hand her a £20 note.
At this point in my mind I'm saying "WOW! I've got 20 pounds!" and started to hand it to her, and realise she's looking at me funny, as well as the people standing behind me in the queue.
It didn't take me long to twig at what I'd just done, quite enthusiastic shouted "WOW! I've got 20 pounds!" at the checkout lady in the middle of this transaction. Probably in a way that made it sound like I'd never seen that much money before in my entire life! Or at lease nothing beyond £19.99.
I could feel myself wanting to giggle but was still standing in the queue, I handed the lady the money, who was giving me a dodgy look, and to be quite honest how could blame her, and the moment I got my change back walked to the exit as fast as I could.
By the time I got outside I couldn't hold the laughter in any longer, its not often I do something that special and now the checkout lady probably thinks I escaped from Bede Wing, but what can ya do but laugh it up. It amused me on my trip home and I'm sure someone else in the queue probably got a kick out of it too.
Apart from checkout lady, she's probably at home now, worried that I've followed her home, and that I'll brake in, and to unspeakable things, to her cat.......
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