On Feb 13, 10:39*pm, Bruce wrote:

Mizter T wrote:
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Interesting opportunities for a blackmarket in ticket selling... 'ere
mate, 50p for number 362 - you'll be seen in a couple a minutes (and
I'll have enough for a tinny of White Lightening...)'

I queued up in the Post Office in Centre MK last year and there was a
35 minute wait to be served. *About half the wait was due to people
whose numbers were being called having already left. *When their
number came up, the counter clerk waited patiently for about a minute
and a half then moved on to the next number.

The average number of missed numbers between genuine customers was
about 1.7 - you can collect a lot of data in 35 minutes. *;-)

Yeah, sorry about that - a lot of people seemed reluctant to take me
up on my offer, perhaps it was my fragrant breath and slight slur -
but worry not, I got enough for a whole 3 litre bottle plus some
change for the one armed bandit in the chippy, and a number of
saplings got watered too. MK - town of the future. Not sure about the
milk from those Fresians though.