Friday's Philosophy

Several of The Regulars would do their best to slope off from work early on a Friday and slope into The Local to wet their whistles for the weekend (except Gobby, whose devotion to the rat race was such that she would often make an especially concerted effort to get up in time for such a rendezvous).

Many hours could be whiled away listening to the pearls of wisdom and philosophical musings from the collective insight of those present, no longer of any use to society, propping up the bar.

As the Three Stooges cogitated over the finer points of life and the Mirror Quizword it was with fondness that they recalled a former Barton resident asking if anyone remembered:

"Maureen with one leg".

The Regulars tried hard to recall such a resident and were just about to give up when, mercifully, with a blinding flash of inspiration one of the Stooges interjected with,

"Do you mean one-legged Maureen?"

It was generally agreed, that short of a cooincidence of gargantuan scale, that this, indeed, was most likely to be the same individual in question.

However, when one of the Stooges further mooted,

"Imagine that, a woman with one leg called Maureen. I wonder what she called the other one?"

Gobby decided it was time to make tracks as you could have too much intellectual conversation at one sitting what with the evening session yet to come...