I was just about to get into my car at a M62 service station (about noon today) when I was nobbled by a man in the passenger seat of the car which had just driven into the empty space next to me. He wanted to give me an expensive looking watch absolutely free. I have no use for another watch so suggested he find a more deserving recipient and he eventually gave up after offering me what looked like a ladies watch as a gift for a friend, and was driven away.
Was this some strange scam of just a genuinely altruistic man spreading his good luck around.
I didn't understand everything he said but his patter appeared to be that he was an Italian who had just done some profitable trading in in Manchester possibly due to some perhaps dodgy tax advantage involving (I think) the Isle of Man.