| OK, well talking
about meeting wives, my wife used to work in a bank,
right, she was a a cashier, a bank teller, so it's the
first place I saw her, and this was my bank, the bank
that I went to, and I saw her there and I thought "Wow!
She’s she’s fantastic!" you know. So
obviously I had to go in once a week anyway to draw
money out, started going a little bit more often than
once a week. [To to cash a cheque for one quid?] Yeah
I would I would go in and sometimes you know you didn’t
need any money but you had to had an excuse, so cash
a cheque for a pound or something like that. And this
went on for quite a long time and I was always queuing
up in her queue, and I wasn't the only one as well.
You know it's kinda noticeable, there were three cashiers
and there would be sort of a long quene in her line
and then sort of maybe nobody in the other or just one
or two in the others. So anyway this on for a while,
and you know it's getting nowhere - I'm fairly shy when
it comes to these things and there was no way I was
gonna chat her up openly, especially with about three
other people standing behind me listening to everything.
It's sort of like trying to you know chat up a Librarian
- there's a big notice saying "Please be quiet!
No talking!" you know. So I was thinking "What
can I do? Can I write a message on the back of the cheque?"
And I just "No, no, I can't" - I'm too scared
to do that. So this went on for a while and I thought
"No, forget it. This is nothing, nothing’s
gonna happen." I still had to go to the bank, I
can’t change banks, but after a while I start
saying "Let me go to the other" [Did you start
going to another teller?] Yeah, yeah "Let me go
to the other queues, you know, the other cashiers."
’Cos I can’t keep giving myself this sort
of pain you know. [yeah, yeah] Then I was had a couple
of friends, right, so I told them or they came in with
me, I can't remember. Pretty soon they both fancy her
as well and there's like the three of us on a Saturday,
you know they start they start going along to the same
bank. Anyway, by this time I’d sort of given up
you know, any hope that anything’s gonna happen,
I’m not gonna say anything. And one of my friends,
much more bold than I am, is always you know one for
the women, and he asked her out, OK. So, so but yeah,
again, by this time you know I think well there's nothing
gonna happen as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, I'm in
the cinema one night watching a watching a film. Film’s
started, about ten minutes into the film, so I’m
sitting there by myself. ’Course it’s dark
all around, the usherette, right [This isn't a Friday
night is it? How sad!] No, it was of course sad, there
am I by myself, you know. It probably was a Friday night,
yeah. Nobody to go with, so I'm on my own. And about
ten minutes into the film, the usherette comes in with
a little torch, right, ushering in some people to watch
the movie and of course, who does she usher in, OK,
but Norma and this other guy! So of course as soon as
he sees me, immediately he pushes Norma to the other
side, right, and then sits down next to me so that he
can keep her on the other side. But that was that sort
of broke the ice because from that point on I'd sort
of like seen her outside work [That was the first time
you actually talked to her.] Yeah, that's right. And
so, from then on, things picked up. And the rest is
another story, we'll we'll cut it there!
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