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oldgit

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The days of nipping into one of those large trade sites with a Tesco bag of actual folding money are long gone.
Walked into one of those in North London in the 1980s and drove out shortly after with a rather nice Golf GTi, none of this rubbish about them sticking the VED on your bill either.
 

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The days of nipping into one of those large trade sites with a Tesco bag of actual folding money are long gone.
Walked into one of those in North London in the 1980s and drove out shortly after with a rather nice Golf GTi, none of this rubbish about them sticking the VED on your bill either.
Boat before this one was bought with a rucksack of folding euros. Just after the financial crash. The tale of it was in MBY.
 

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Boat before this one was bought with a rucksack of folding euros. Just after the financial crash. The tale of it was in MBY.
Folding only in my experience works when both parties are of similar mind set .

I was on a shoot once whereby the last day the admin lady turned up wanted next yrs subscription fees .
A scrap metal man presented £60 K of folding which was damp smelt of soil .;) They took it because they have to pay beaters , farmers for grain , and hatcheries etc as well as the keepers tips + team .

Walk into a Pengradon group car dealership and slap the same down for a car and the staff wouldn’t know what to do with it ?
By the time you got home ( assuming they took it ) in your new car there will be a queue of officialdom waiting on your drive to ask where you got it from. Assuming they missed the hole in the flower bed and muddy spade leaning up by the door:)

I knocked my broker fee down with brown envelopes and once re fuelling in Italy adding 2000 L when it came to pay was informed “there are two prices ”
Oh “what are might they be “ i inquisitively asked .Saw €1.70 on pump .
” A white price and another of €1 /L “ came back by the self employed one man band who had driven his Piaggio tiny fuel truck up the berth ,

No prizes to figuring out which I paid .
 
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