What was Alan Bennett up to..?
Jun. 16th, 2010 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnI read this news story :http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8740984.stm ; all about various scams. But it didn't answer the first question I had on reading the story about how Alan Bennett's wallet was stolen : namely, what was he DOING with £1,500 in cash in his wallet? £1,500!
Who carries that sort of sum around in cash? People who run cornershops and ice cream vans going to the bank at the end of the week, perhaps. But elderly writers? OK, he's old enough not to have a credit card and perhaps also to distrust debit - but does the man not have a cheque book?
Who carries that sort of sum around in cash? People who run cornershops and ice cream vans going to the bank at the end of the week, perhaps. But elderly writers? OK, he's old enough not to have a credit card and perhaps also to distrust debit - but does the man not have a cheque book?
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