WALKING through the underpass in Broadstone this week, I met a girl of about 15 coming towards me.

She started to jump against the wall making footmarks where it was painted white.

I stopped her and said: “Do you realise that your parents’ rates money is being wasted, because a painter will have to repaint that and it is the rates your parents pay which pays the workman’s wages?”

She just looked at me and said “Drop dead Grandma” and carried out through the underpass still stamping on the white paint.

What is the answer?


P BROOKES, address supplied, Broadstone