- Joined
- Friday July 10, 2009
- Location
- Little Feckwittering-on-the-Moor
Typically when you proffer a Scottish banknote in England more than 50 miles from the border, it gets scrutinised like it's monopoly money with jobbie smeared on it... I tried this today...
I bought some stuff (Wilkinson shave sticks) in the chemists deep in Scotland and offered a Royal Bank tenner for the £1.86 sale - she gave me an English fiver in the change and I checked it extremely thoroughly and handed it back and said (in my obviously English accent) "I don't take foreign notes". You should have seen her face :lol:
Can't wait until the next time we head down to Cheshire (I've just got a pile of UlsterBank & BoI notes after chatting to some bikers at the Kelso Bike Fest today) been down that way before and told "we don't take Sterling" after a forensic exam of a Clydesdale £20 note, manager being called and ultimately getting the items for free when the manager intervened.
I bought some stuff (Wilkinson shave sticks) in the chemists deep in Scotland and offered a Royal Bank tenner for the £1.86 sale - she gave me an English fiver in the change and I checked it extremely thoroughly and handed it back and said (in my obviously English accent) "I don't take foreign notes". You should have seen her face :lol:
Can't wait until the next time we head down to Cheshire (I've just got a pile of UlsterBank & BoI notes after chatting to some bikers at the Kelso Bike Fest today) been down that way before and told "we don't take Sterling" after a forensic exam of a Clydesdale £20 note, manager being called and ultimately getting the items for free when the manager intervened.