I once went to visit the Midland Bank offices in London to try to sell them some cheque paper.

After our meeting I went to the pub for lunch with my customer.

Over a pint or two I explained to my customer that I had trouble finding his office and I asked him why there was no big sign over the door indicating "National Westminister Bank".

He replied :

"because we are the Midland Bank".

I've enjoyed reading this thread.
Its so comforting to realise that I'm not the only .........

Um.....

Where was I?

What?

Alec.

A number of years ago, before satnavs, I was working beside a road to the south of Crawley in Sussex when a car pulled up and a red-faced man got out and asked me how to get to Addlestone. (Wearing a hi-vis jacket with 'Ordnance Survey' on the back made you a magnet for lost motorists...) I vaguely knew that Addlestone was in Surrey but I had no real clue how to get there, so I told him it was miles away and I would need to check the map. He said he was late for a meeting and it had to be nearby as he had been told it was just off junction 11. I asked him which motorway and he looked at me as if I was an idiot and said the M25 of course. When I told him yes, it was junction 11 but the M23, not the M25, he glared at me as if it was my fault, jumped back in the car and screeched off back the way he had come.

Cheers,

Chris

PS. Mind you, it works both ways. On another occasion somebody stopped me to ask the way to somewhere I did know, so I gave them directions. It wasn't till after they'd gone I realised I had made a mistake and they would never get where they were going the way I had sent them... I can only hope they thought they had misremembered my instructions and that it was all their fault.

My claim to ignominy is putting sugar, coffee whitener and coffee into my breafast cereal bowl then wondering why the weetybix won't fit in the coffee cup.

A condition known in our family as TIBMIN

Thumb in bum, mind in neutral