I was afraid this might happen.

Ron is a very nice bloke. We have been mates for years. We get on very well together.

But he has a bit of a vindictive streak.

I was out in the front garden this morning, when the postman came. There was the usual wodge of pamphlets offering me double glazing and the like, a few bills and a parcel.

I wasn’t expecting a parcel. The first thing I noticed about it was that it was addressed correctly. For some strange reason, no one can ever get my address right. Even the In-laws [Outlaws?] can’t get it right. One day before Christmas last year we got ten cards and no two of them had the same address on them. It’s a wonder that I ever get any post at all.

It also looked like it was addressed in Ron’s handwriting. That’s when I thought of his little propensity for exacting revenge.

But Ron wouldn’t do that to me. We are old friends. We share a laugh. He knows it was an accident. And anyway it’s my turn to buy the pints next time we go for a jar.

But just to be on the safe side, I asked one of the builders in the neighbours house if he could open the parcel for me.

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Now I have to write to his family in Poland and apologise and sympathise.

I hate writing letters.