21stcenturykid said:
Well Lau i'd guess most people are going to the pub 2nite. i certainly am most of the year is im guessing!!
This evening! That's hours away.
We all went to the pub in the morning.
Oddly, while we were at the pub a friend of mine was accosted by a older man at the bar, and we were a bit worried that he was sleazy. But then he came over with a four wine glasses and put them down on the table, and went away. Hmm. Then he came over with a bottle of champagne (Moët & Chandon at £35!), put it down on the table and said "I can see you're celebrating your A-levels. My daughter did hers last year, and I'm really proud of her, and I just found 10 grand in the roof of a house I'm clearing out, and so have some bubbly on me. We were totally overwhelmed, and tried to get him to join us, and he wouldn't have any of it. And then he came over
again, and put £35 down on the table, and said "Get another one in after that". And by this point we were totally overwhelmed and grateful, and then he said, "Hang on, you'll just spend that on beer" and went and got another bottle for us, in a little bucket with ice, and still said "No, no, none for me, just enjoy your day and good luck for the future".
It was one of those unbelievably random acts of kindness and generosity that stays with you for ever, and we all felt dreadful for thinking he was just sleazing over 18 year olds at the bar.
God knows if he had found 10 grand in the house, but it was such a nice thing to do and to not expect anything back.
And it got us totally fannied as well.
By midnight in the vilest club in town, things were messy...
And the moral of the story is, if you go to the pub soon, exciting things might happen.
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Hector, why would going to Heriot-Watt be at the expense of your career? Do you mean you could go to a better uni next year, or that having a B rather than a D by next year would be good career wise? What subject will you be studying again?