Conned by a Walt!!!
In a west end pub waiting to see the football with a mate.
Old boy sits near us and 'somehow' mentions he was an ex RSM in the Argylls - fair enough. Being curious and up for a story we ask him where he'd been with them. Korea, Malaya etc etc...
Then he says he's a bit short of cash to get home - could we buy these 1st class stamps off of him so he can get back? He shows us 20 '1st class' stamps - says he wants £5 for them - bargain!
In the dingy pub he had pointed out what looked like a '1st' figure on the stamp - the next day we found that the figure was actually '1p'!
So the old bugger had sold us 20p worth of stamps for £5!!!
We were the donkey's that day...