Yes that is a wig

This chap is Michael, great bloke but he suffers from short-term memory loss, which complicates his life to the point of frustration, it doesn't do me a lot of good either because I have to repeat things for him. Not in normal conversation, he gets by with that, but he insists on using a computer, in fact he has two desktops and a laptop, none of which he can use for any length of time, because he forgets what it is he is doing.

The first time we met was when he came into a TV and video repair shop I had a while ago and asked for instructions on how to program his video, as he didn't have the user manual. It was obvious to me that it wasn't getting through to him, so I wrote the instructions down. He seemed happy enough with that and left to set about his video programming. An hour later he was back, asking the same questions he had asked when he walked in earlier.

I told him about the piece of paper he had in his coat pocket, and informed him in no uncertain terms that I had better things to do with my time than have the Mickey taken out of me. At which point he laughed like Basil Brush and explained his affliction. I didn't believe him and threw him out of the shop. Some time after that a I was talking to another shop owner on my row and he confirmed that Michael did indeed suffer memory problems as a result of a stroke he had suffered when only eighteen years old. I felt bad about my rudeness and went round to his house to apologise, where of course I ended up programming his video.

He is a firm friend now. He visits my house on Monday and Friday nights, bemoaning his enforced vegetarian diet, complaining about having to share his house with the thirty Cats that his wife thinks more of than him, and asking me yet again how to cut and past files on his computer, or perform various other basic PC related tasks.
But I don't mind, as I said he is a good bloke and his Basil Brush laugh is infectious. He will laugh at anything remotely funny, a comedian's dream, one or two like him in the audience and they wouldn't need a full house. I saw him last Friday and he told me that he had changed his will and was leaving it all to me. A little taken aback I said but Mike what about your wife, he looked me strait in the eye and said no problem, you can have her as well.