Shopping in a pawn shop.

[jaybkay]

I have to confess that I bought a couple of bits of jewelery for the OH at the local pawn shop for Christmas - perhaps I should have bought this instead:

"A wooden box containing the remains of a leading Christchurch doctor remains unclaimed in a Christchurch pawn shop after 13 years.

A woman called Tamara Nathan brought the ashes to The Pawn Shop on December 28, 1996, as collateral for an $80 loan.

Shop employee Pete Murray, who has worked at the shop for 20 years, said Nathan was a Maori with a moko (tattoo)

"It's not something we'd normally take, but the box was just amazing, a really nice antique," he said.

The loan was to be repaid after a month.

However, the small box was placed in storage when the woman failed to return."

[TheEnd]

That reminds me of deal or no deal.

[HOGEPH]

They'd been using the box as an ashtray.

When the woman collected it, she said. "He's been dead 13 years and he's put on weight!"


(I think that was an old Ronnie Corbett joke)