SIR - I was looking at the damaged Worcester river bridge parapet for the umpteenth time thinking just how lethargic people can be when they are paid by the week and not by results. Then a story popped into my mind that was going around when the communists were in power in Russia.
This man went to the car showrooms to buy a new car. He paid in cash and the salesman said: "Thank you sir, your new Lada will be delivered in exactly five years' time on Friday." The customer said: "Could you make sure it is delivered in the afternoon?" The salesman asked why. The customers said: "I'm having a fridge delivered in the morning."
D BOWEN,
St John's, Worcester.
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