Dear Mrs Mohd’s,<\/p>\n
Please try not to worry, I’m sure we can sort something out here. I think you are right, my only option is to borrow the money, unfortunately with my meagre income I am unlikely to be able to borrow such a large sum of money from a reputable bank.
\nThe only option would seem to be for me to approach a loan shark. Arthur Thomson lives near Bowmore and I could borrow Danny’s bicycle and go over to discus terms with Mr Thomson tonight. My concern is that Mr Thomson has a reputation as a ruthless thug, last year it was rumoured that he nailed old Mrs Flora McDonald to the door of her hovel after she was twice late with a payment.
\nMay I be frank Mrs Mohd’s? I have great sympathy for your plight and would love to help you but in view of the unpleasant fate that would await me if I defaulted on a debt to Mr Thomson I have to be 100% certain that you will be able to reimburse me. It pains me to have to ask this, but I’m sure you will forgive me for doing so – Can I have your assurance, as one woman to another, that this isn’t a scam and I really will be reimbursed?
\nAs soon as I receive your assurance then I will cycle to Bowmore and arrange the loan.<\/p>\n
Kind Regards,
\nEthel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Mrs Mohd’s, Please try not to worry, I’m sure we can sort something out here. I think you are right, my only option is to borrow the money, unfortunately with my meagre income I am unlikely to be able to borrow such a large sum of money from a reputable bank. The only option … Continue reading “I’ll try a loan shark. This isn’t a scam is it?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mrs-mohds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1559\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrstrellis.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}