Wilf: It was snow joke looking for a globe

Aug 22 2009 by Linzi Nicholson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

I DECIDED I’d like to make a snow globe. There are some very nice battery ones you don’t even have to shake.

An ideal snow globe subject I thought would be Moses in the desert with the manna snowing around him. I realised it would be easier to alter an existing globe and I found a stack of them in an economy shop.

On the boxes it said ‘Holstein Cow’ and sure enough in each globe there was a black and white cow, battery not included.

Why anyone should make a snow globe with a cow in it I don’t know. Perhaps it advertised cold milk. I bought one for £2.50. When I got home and put a battery in it didn’t work. I took it back to the shop. I told the lady it didn’t work.

She said,” What did you pay for it?”

“Two pounds fifty like it says on card at the top of the pile”.

She said: “Have you got a receipt?”

I said: “I don’t think I’ve got it on me but it obviously came from this shop as you are the only shop in town selling Holstein Cow snow globes”.

“You must have a receipt”. I said “I don’t want my money back I want to change it for one that works and I’ve brought a battery to check”.

“That’s alright then,” she said.