Due to give a speech and in need of inspiration?
You might want to go flicking through some old books.
Reece Wane, 27, was lucky enough to find a best man’s speech – albeit one that’s a tad cringey – stuffed in the pages of a secondhand book
Reece had ordered a book about the Teutonic Knights for £6.50 from Amazon Marketplace.
As he was flicking through the pages, two pieces of A4 paper fell out. It turned out those pieces of paper contained a best man’s speech packed with jokes and puns.
Is it a speech we’d recommend copying? Perhaps not.
But it could jog your creative juices if you’re staring at a blank page. Next time you’ve got writer’s block, go to a secondhand bookshop and leaf through the pages.
The speech was written for the wedding of a Tom Fletcher and his wife-to-be Becky (so no, not the guy from McFly).
Now, Reece hopes to track down the mystery best man and reunite him with his speech.
The speech starts with a joke: ‘If anyone here feels nervous, apprehensive or queasy… It’s probably because you’ve just got married to Tom Fletcher’.
Then it compares Tom’s dancing to that of David Brent, jokes about the groom’s work ethic, and says that Becky ‘couldn’t have done any worse’.
There’s also the classic line of referring to the speech as the ‘worst five minutes of your life’, then saying ‘Becky – your worst five minutes will probably come later tonight’.
Hotel manager Reece, from Leeds, said: ‘I thought it was absolutely hilarious.
‘It’s so generic and he’s used so many classic British humour jokes.
‘There is some real personal stuff in there and you can see he’s properly trying to wind his best mate up.
‘When I found it me and Molly had such a laugh about it.
‘I was really surprised because I was just sat there with a brew and it popped out.
‘I wonder if he popped it in there for safekeeping and just forgot where he put it.
‘If the wedding hasn’t happened yet then I do want to get it back to him before the big day. There’s a lot of work gone into it.’
The speech suggests the wedding of Tom and Becky Fletcher will take place on 5 June – but doesn’t say in what year.
Reece said: ‘We have tried to track down the author but haven’t had any luck.
‘From one bloke to another I’d like to get it back to him.
‘It takes a lot of hard work to write a best man’s speech. He probably spent says writing it and now he has lost it.
‘If I’d lost one I’d be gutted, the wedding might not have even happened yet.
‘It hasn’t been there for long because the paper is really fresh.
‘I’ve got his back if he wants to have it returned for sure.’
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/11/21/man-wants-reunite-best-man-wedding-speech-left-secondhand-book-11194444/
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