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It's quaint the things you find in some people's bathrooms...
Anna Percy's 12-year-old daughter had a friend round, and at one point this young girl visited the bathroom.
On her return she mentioned to Anna that she was intrigued by the toothbrushes she spotted on the shelf.
It transpired that in her home everyone uses the motorised versions, and she had never seen a non-buzzy brush before.
'I didn't know you could get one that wasn't electric,' she admitted, before asking: 'What do you call it… an acoustic toothbrush?'
Dan's the man
True confession time.
Reader Neil Gregory is a respected pillar of society, often to be spotted in sensible shoes, sedate trousers and a shirt which is safely tucked beneath his belt.
But in the good old, bad old days of the 1960s he was something of a Flower Child, with hair as lengthy as Wagner's Ring Cycle, bell-bottom jeans, and even a pair of sandals, which was a brave choice of footwear to be wearing on the puddle-spattered Glasgow pavements.
Being a hippy meant befriending other hippies and forming a community of sorts, which Neil proceeded to do.
He was even lucky enough to bond with a bona fide American drop-out from the rat race, who was named Daniel, and had previously loafed around the fabled hippy enclave of Haight-Ashbery, before he eventually tripped and traipsed his way to Scotland.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, this chap came to be known by the nickname Dan Francisco.
Anger (mis)management
True confession, Part Deux.
Reader Ryan Dawson says: 'I realised I have a road rage problem when my five-year-old daughter shouted "Pick a lane, eejit!" while sitting in my shopping trolley.'
Andrew Smith from Troon spotted this shop in Irvine and concluded that they could have chosen a better name for it… (Image: Contributed)
Trash talk
When he was a student, Barry Rogers got a part-time job as a garbage collector.
'So you're working as a binman?' said one of his friends.
'I prefer to think of myself as a pick-up artist,' replied Barry.
Kid's stuff
We mentioned that a Scottish actor has bagged the role of Harry Potter in a TV version of the popular fantasy series.
David Morrow wonders if this will lead to other classics of children's literature becoming Scottified, and he looks forward to reading… The Famous Fife.
Bump and beyond
'I bought a book on how to survive falling down a staircase,' says reader Chris Jones. 'It was a step-by-step guide.'
