Your Letters
16:24 UK time, Thursday, 4 August 2011
A claims management company has texted me to say I'm entitled to up to £4000 in compensation for my car accident. I think I should get much more than that, since it caused such bad amnesia that I have absolutely no recollection of the accident itself or of ever having driven a car. Was I perhaps a passenger in one of your readers' cars? Could they please tell me where we were going and why?
David Richerby, Liverpool, UK
Now the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is looking for nominative determinism on purpose, aren't you...?
J Paul Murdock, Wall Heath, West Midlands, UK
I was sure the third tag here read "things we learn don't twitter"!
Paul Greggor, London
Re Young people "more likely to reach 100 years old". What rubbish! Young people don't become 100 years old, 99-year-olds do.
Marcooosa, Portsmouth
Rachel of Wayzat (Wednesday letters), it would be a terrible faux pas to serve Garibaldis, especially free ones. Bourbons - now that's a regal dynastic choice, or a Royal Scot if available.
Trina, UK
What's a word for the phenomenon where you find yourself amused by a letter only to notice that you wrote the letter?
Steve, Edinburgh
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