The Baillie Bugle

• Half price roses – get your half price roses here. Six pound per dozen.
• Excuse me…
• Yeah?
• Yesterday you were selling twelve roses for thirty pounds.
• Tha’s right.
• But half of thirty is fifteen…
• Indeed, sir. Your grasp of the mathematics is to be admired.
• So why are you pretending that you were selling your roses for only twelve pounds yesterday?
• Because if I remind any of these gentlemen passing that they paid thirty quid for a dozen flowers that’ll last no more than a day or two, they’ll probably burst into tears and that’ll put off today’s customers.
• You think that’s likely?
• Only one day of the year a man’s mad enough to shell out that sort o’ money. Paid for my holiday to Barbados this year it ‘as.
• I’ll take six.