Strange days

TO ADD to previous examples of odd things said to people (Letters), I recall that in the 1970s, my then girlfriend once piped up: ‘You’d have made a wonderful prisoner of war.’

She later explained that she really meant no one could break me down, so it was intended as a compliment. BARRY BRUMMITT,

Stamford, Lincs. SITTING at home one day, I had a phone call from a friend I sometimes see. ‘I need a favour,’ she said. ‘Can you go and pick up my brother? He gets out of prison today.’ That was extremely odd. But I went anyway.

Mrs B. McDEvITT, Birkenhead, Merseyside.

AS I was walking through a market hall, an elderly man in a motorised wheelchair looked up at me as he passed and said: ‘You’re too young to die.’ Name supplied, Luton, Beds.

VISITING the Natural History Museum with the children, we decided to take a break for coffee and doughnuts.

A man sitting opposite us suddenly leaned forward and said to me: ‘I’ve always wanted to cut off a lock of Princess Anne’s hair.’

I choked on my doughnut but recovered enough to point him out to security later.

MARY ANDERSON, Wimborne, Dorset.