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It's Week Seventeen and I've given up...
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<blockquote data-quote="GoingNorth" data-source="post: 152479" data-attributes="member: 1963"><p>My mother grew up in wartime England. Her green grocer (fruit and veggie shop) told her a funny story.</p><p></p><p>There was an American missionary couple who had just moved to England from the US. The wife went to the greengrocers to order some stuff for the house (in those days you could ring up or drop by the shop and they would send a "lad" by to deliver it later the same or the next day.</p><p></p><p>Well, they had a good sized family, and apparently the wife figured a stone was the British equivalent of a POUND.</p><p></p><p>So...the woman ordered 20 stone of potatoes. The greengrocer gave her a very strangle look but took down the order.</p><p></p><p>He said she was rather startled when a wagon carrying 280 pounds of potatoes showed up the next day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoingNorth, post: 152479, member: 1963"] My mother grew up in wartime England. Her green grocer (fruit and veggie shop) told her a funny story. There was an American missionary couple who had just moved to England from the US. The wife went to the greengrocers to order some stuff for the house (in those days you could ring up or drop by the shop and they would send a "lad" by to deliver it later the same or the next day. Well, they had a good sized family, and apparently the wife figured a stone was the British equivalent of a POUND. So...the woman ordered 20 stone of potatoes. The greengrocer gave her a very strangle look but took down the order. He said she was rather startled when a wagon carrying 280 pounds of potatoes showed up the next day. [/QUOTE]
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