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WHAT WOULD YOU HAVE DONE?

YOUR LETTERS

What would you have done? Last week we invited readers to write and tell us about things that had happened to them. or things that they had heard about. We wanted stor-ies where people just didn't know what to do next! Here are the stories that interested us most!

That's my beer... that was!

I was in a smali country pub. I had just sat down with a pint of beer. Suddenly this huge man - he looked like a boxer-came over, picked up my beer. drank it. banged the glass down on the table, stared at me, and then walked away without saying anything.

I suppose I should have said something, but I was scared stiff! I didn't know what to do! WHat would you have done?

Mr A Watney, Hull.

jn Hoap »«/₃ter

I was on a touring holiday in France. It was a very hot day and I stopped at a smali de-serted beach. I hadn't got my swimming-costume with me. but it was early in the morning and there were no people or houses in sight. So I took off all my clothes and swam out to sea. I'm a very strong swimmer. I lay on my back. closed my eyes, and relaxed in the water. When I looked back at the beach. a coach had arrived and there were thirty or forty people sitting on the sand having a pienie! What would you have done?

MrT Homiman. Ipswich.

Naughty Bishopl I was told a lovely story about the Bishop of Fleetwood.

He'd gone to New York for a church conference. Anyway, when he stepped olf the piane there were a lot of jour-nalists and cameramen. The first question one of the jour-nalists asked was ’Do you in-tend to visit any nightclubs in New York?' Weil, the Bishop was 85 years old. ‘Are there any nightclubs in New York?’ he answered innocently_The next morning the headline in one of the New York papers was 'Bishop's first question on arrival in New York - Are there any nightclubs?' How would you bave felt?

Reverend Simon Fisher, Ex-eter.

Strangers in the night My story isn’t at all funny. It was a very frightening experi-ence. You see, one night I woke up suddenly. I heard the tinkle of broken glass from downstairs, and I heard the wiituow openiny. Then ! heard two voices! My wife had woken up. too. She told me to do something. A couple of days before. there had been a report about a burglary in the local paper. The burglars had been interrupted and they had beaten up the householder. They'd nearly killed him. I was tremblina with fear. I just dian t icnow what to do. In the end, I didn't go down and they stole the silver tea-service l'd inherited from my mother. Was I right? What would you have dane?

Mr D Boswell, Edinburgh.

A saucy thief

I had parked my car in a multi-storey car park and I was tak-ing a short cut through the side door of the restaurant in a large storę. Half-way across the restaurant I spotted my father eating pie. chips and peas - he often eats there. I "ćrept up behind him, put my hand over his shoulder, took a chip off the piąte, dipped it in the tomato sauce and ate it. Then I realized that the man was not my father! I was so embarrassed! I couldn't say a word! What would you have done?

Miss H P Branston, Cardiff. Unlessll!

I’d just parked my car in the Street near a football stadium in Liverpool. It was ten mi-nutes before the start of the match and I was in a hurry. Two little boys came up to me and said 'Give us 50p snd we'll look after your car while you're at the match.' I told them to elear off, and one of them looked at me with big. round, innocent eyes and said 'Unless you give us the money. something might hap-pen to your car while you’re away. You know, a scratch or a fiat tyre. Something like that.' I was furious! What would you have done!

Mr D Revie, Birkenhead. Honesty is the best policy I couldn't believe a story I heard the other day. (t seems that a couple had just bought a house in Manchester. They wanted to insulate the roof, so they climbed upinto the loft. There, under the water tank, was £20,000 in cash! They handed over the money to the police. Would you have re-ported the find? What would you have done?

Mrs B Leyland, Birmingham.

Conditional sentences: mixed types ■ PEG 221—S

Put the verbs in brackets into the correct forms.

1    I’ve hung out the clothes. It's lovely and sunny; if it (stay) like I they (be) dry in two hours.

2    French is essential in this job. All the telephonists speak it. If tl (not know) French they (not understand) half the callers.

3    How did you do in the car rally? ~

We came in last actually; but only because we got lost. If we (n got) lost we (come) in somewhere in the middle. We certainly (r be) last.

4    I wasn’t really surprised that we got lost because I knew that tl navigator couldn’t map-read. -

But if you (know) that why you (take) him as nayigatpf?

5    This fiat would be all right if the people above us (not be) so no

6    A group of spectators, including myself, left the stand just befo the end of the gamę. When we were half way down the stairs a was scored and there was a great cheer from the spectators. If (not be) a goal the crowd (not cheer).

7    If the crowd (not cheer) we (not run) back up the stairs to see w had happened.

8    If we (not run) back we (not crash) into the rest of the spectatoi their way down, and there (not be) this frightful accident. .

9- If the pain (return) you’d better take another pili.

10    If you aren’t going to live in the house why you (not sell) it? If I (have) a house I couldn’t use I (sell) it at once.

11    No, I didn’t know any Russian at that time. ~

But if you (not know) Russian why you (offer) to give him Russ lessons? ~

Because I knew that he (refuse). He always rejected my offers.

12    Tell him to bring his bicycle inside. If he (leave) it outside some (steal) it.

13    Why do people always wear dark clothes at night? If pedestrian (wear) light coloured clothes drivers (see) them much morę easi

14    She must have loved him very much because she waited for hin fifteen years. If she (not love) him she (not wait) so long.

15    He looked so smali and weak that nobody asked him to do anyt If he (look) strong he (be) expected to dig all day like everyone

16    The government are talking of pulling the village down to make room for an airport. ~

If they (start) doing it the village people (resist)?

17    It you are catching an early train tomorrow you (like) to have breakfast at 7 OfP

18    We’ll have to break the ice on the pond; otherwise the ducks (nc able) to swirn. And if they (not be able) to swim they (not be abl< get food. (Use can/could forms wherepossible.)

19    When he left school he becarne a fisherman. His family didn't lii at all. They (be) much happier if he (become) a greengrocer like father.