18 May: @PamAyres You sound like Catherine the Great, Pam...
One of the retweeters was Paul Fletcher -
Paul Fletcher @FleTwitcher18 May@JamesPlaskett just saw one of your tweets retweeted. Bit of a surprise because we went to school together #bms #amillionyearsago
That prompted me to confess to having thrown a stone at school that had hit his head - He responded with -
Paul Fletcher @FleTwitcher18 May@JamesPlaskett OMG it was YOU! I didn't ever know, or even guess. Apology accepted, even if its a little late ;-) #stillscarred
And the chat continued with his enclosing a shot of the, still extant, scar I had caused on his head...
Paul Fletcher @FleTwitcher18 MayYou did this to me @JamesPlaskett pic.twitter.com/ffq6Za4dBl
I tweeted that I would be writing up the coincidence here and he responded -
Paul Fletcher @FleTwitcher18 May@JamesPlaskett I'll look out for my small part in your blog (!) fame at last...
Then an erstwhile Primary School friend of 43 years earlier (who became a Policeman!) chipped in re an incident where I had acquired an undeserved reputation as a delinquent in 1970 for having loosed an arrow from a bow which, quite accidentally, hit a passing minibus -
Adrian @Watchoot1518 May@JamesPlaskett @FleTwitcher yet you still deny the noddy bus incident!!
Adrian's reference was to what had happened in 1970 when I stood outside his family home in Singapore and loosed an arrow from a homemade bow. It, quite by accident, struck a bus on the far side of the road! I was then asked by Adrian's father to please go away. And people aboard the bus told the driver, "Chua", that he should take action.
This was monstrously unfair, for only a week or two before Chua had been paid by me fir a fare I owed and hence described me as "a very good customer."
Yet I, with characteristic impraacticality and gaucherie, did not take issue with the outraged passenhers.
And instaed just slipped away.
