Here's a daft little story for you concerning the item in the above ad. I bought my first and only TONIBELL MINIBALL back around 1967 or '68. (Hard to believe it was over forty years ago.) When I moved house in 1972, I was sure I had brought it with me to my new home, but - mysteriously - I couldn't find it. I had kept it behind the water tank up in the attic, and I was sure I had retrieved it the night before moving, but - search as I might in our new abode - it was nowhere to be found.
Over the years, I would regularly have dreams in which I found myself back in my old house, searching for my trusty friend from childhood. Anyway, to cut a long story short, nineteen years later I decided to determine its fate once and for all, and managed to gain access to my old house and its attic - and was overjoyed (if flabbergasted) to find my yellow-coloured miniball exactly where I had left it so many years before - completely untouched. So, not only was I the last person to see it back in 1972, I was the first person to clap eyes on it again in 1991. Strangely, the nineteen years that have elapsed since I retrieved it don't seem a fraction of the time it lay undiscovered and neglected for the same period.
And guess what? I've never had those dreams again since that day I finally solved the mystery of the disappearing little yellow ball.
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