Friday, September 21, 2007

Just where do these stories come from?

It amazes me how readily some people jump to conclusions. They invent some plausible story which gets transmitted on the grapevine and Bob's your uncle it's  touted as if  it is fact.

The latest one we heard was that the guy from the post office had left to set up in business with the man who runs the hardware shop opposite the petrol station. I can't remember who it was who told us the story but they were convinced it was true.  After all why else would he be gone for three weeks?

NOT TRUE! In fact he'd been on holiday to Cantabria, Principado de Asturias and Galicia in the north of the country. We know because he told us when we went down for the post on Monday. He took all his holidays in one to make the special trip.

We're so glad we didn't pass that story on otherwise we could have ended up looking as foolish as the person who first made it up.

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