Time for another great Gransnet story!

X post Jane10 !

“You mean ‘paint’ stripper?

A paint stripper. Any of you need any work done?

I've only got some Kendal mint cake on me but I can ring my best mate and he can bring his very particular talents. Shall I ring him, he's a very nice guy, works as a stripper?

But you must bring gifts for the forum.

"What have you got?" they asked, as he sat down.

They greeted him warmly, come and join us they chortled, we've always got room for a good looking young man.

They gave him a menacing look and said "do you want one?"

They were indeed Gransnetters!

Their mouths were just big round holes, and chocolate was smeared all around their faces, if faces they were.

But then he realised these weren't men as he had first thought but strange beings, who had noticed him and were giving him hostile looks

Gigantic box of Quality Street.
He thought “Please, please, not the green triangles!!!”

A shiver ran through his body. Three men were behind the counter, huddled round a ledger, a battered cash box and a....

Saw that it was a sweet shop. He knew that his wife loved sweets so he.........

Found a number of GN members, laughing, drinking, and messing about. ?

The empty shops were black caves except one a few yards further on which showed a dim flickering light. He reached it and looked in and-

It's such a long way home, he thought as he trudged along the dark and desolate high street.