I had a girlfriend

that was from a titled French family in London

for some time during the 80s.

She was always immaculately dressed in designer clothes.

Her mother would not give her the extra money she wanted

so she decided to take a job in Harrods book department

as she had a literature degree.

The customers ignored her

as they thought she was another customer

and staff thought she was a plant from management

so kept away from her.

During one lunch hour

she went to a designer dress shop across the road from thestore

and saw a dress she liked

which cost the whole of her weeks wages, at sale price!

She put a small deposit on it

and said would be back Friday to collect.
She told meabout the dress

and I said as I was short of cash

if she gave me the cash

I would buy it on my American express card

and use cash to pay my large company phone bill

and we could go to dinner

and I would pay card back when got bill.

So as we liked to have a bit of fun

the plan went like this….
I worked asan electrician

and had long hair, dark glasses, old leather jacket

and new 1000cc BMW motorcycle.
On theFriday she went to the shop

and I turned up about 30 seconds later,

parked motorcycle outside

and walked in the shop looking around

as if I was going to rob the place.

The staff looked terrified,

I went to the counter behind her

as the assistant brought the dress out from the rear of theshop.

I moved up beside her and said

“That is a nice dress, would you like me to buy it for you?”

She said something like

that would be very kind of you.

The girl behind the counter did not know what to do!

I reached into my inside leather jacket pocket slowly,

and to the relief of the staff

pulled out a Gold American Express card

and not a gun,

placed card on the counter and said

“charge the dress to this.”

The girl picked up the card

and got on the phone to card company,

passed phone to me

and I answered a couple of questions

and passed back to the girl.

She was shocked that

the card transaction was approved.

As the girl put the dress into a carrier bag

I said to my girlfriend

” It’s a nice day

would you like to come for a ride on my bike?”

She replied yes please.

She followed me out of the shop

with assistants behind her

as she got on the pillion of the bike.

They stood there open mouthed and speechless

as we rode off together.