Somehow whenever I play Monopoly my brother always ends up with hotels on Mayfair and Park Lane. And despite all my attempts to turn the game otherwise I inevitably land on them. Repeatedly. So today it was Mayfair, followed by Park Lane twice then Mayfair again, four successive times round the board. Of course in that time he managed to avoid all my houses & hotels on the yellow/green corner. But he bought a Get Out of Jail Free card from me for £9000 so it was all alright.
The little side columns in papers always hide the most fantastically odd stories - in the Times today there were tales of thieves who stole cases full of shoes only to realise they belonged to a salesmen and were all left footed, for demonstration only, a woman in Hong Kong who needed surgery to remove a leech that had gotten stuck up her nostril after she had washed her face in a stream and this gem about Peruvian public transport drivers -
A survey of bus and taxi drivers in the Peruvian capital indicated that forty percent of them had psychotic tendencies. Researchers at San Marcos University said: ‘Drivers would not feel any guilt in running over a pedestrian.’
I wondered what the percentage would be for English bus drivers.
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