DH is a volunteer driver for RVS, mostly taking patients to and from radio or chemo therapy, so it could have gone either way!!
Luckily, according to DH, he thought it was really funny. 
Kitty
Well done for standing your ground in the bank too.
Sorry to disappoint, Alima
DH actually learnt the expression from a girl who worked for him. She looked like an angel, tiny, with long blonde hair, but had 3 older brothers!
That really made laugh on a cold and wet morning, Kitty has your husband recovered yet ?
Well done on your charity collection too.
Oh dear. I can sympathise. I once broke a glass and yelled out my dad’s favourite curse - Damn and blast it and bu***r it to hell - at full volume. Then stomped out into the hall to see two faces turned towards me. DH and our new neighbour, who’d called round to introduce himself.
Hilarious, kitty 
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Definitely laugh .
Have you managed to get your foot out of your mouth yet, kitty?
Ahem! I expect you got your point across very well.
On a slightly more serious note - there is an army of volunteers who, at this time of the year, are involved in very many charitable efforts. It's not much fun hanging around in the cold with a begging bucket (or equivalent) and the least that the big institutions could do is to assist where they can.
kittylester, I love that one. 
Recently, I did a bucket collection in our local shopping centre. Another volunteer and I raised over £300 for the Alzheimer's Society, which I was asked to pay in. The method commonly used is for the money to be paid into one's own bank account and then a bank transfer is done.
I turned up at our bank with the money all bagged up correctly and was told that they only accept 10 bags of coin at a time. I was livid! We have banked with said bank for over 30 years. We have/had 2 business accounts, 2 personal accounts, a joint account and various savings accounts. After me standing my ground the money was eventually accepted.
When I got outside, I rang DH to 'share' my experience using the expression that we always use in times of stress (look away now if you are of a delicate disposition!) 'Sh*t, b*gg*r, a*seh*le'
It was at that point that DH told me he was using hands free in the car and also that he had a passenger with him who he was taking for radiotherapy. 
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