GWR DAY - KUWAIT
A Really Big cheque
They don’t do things by half in Kuwait, where money may not grow on trees but does appear to pour out of the ground. This may go some way to explaining the size of the cheque presented at the Shahr Al Kheir Festival on 26 October.
Measuring a truly enormous 12 metres by 25 metres, the cheque for US$100,000 was withdrawn from the Kuwait Finance House and signed by Mr Mohammed A Al Otabi.
One thing we can be sure of is that any cheque of this size is unlikely to bounce…but it might well bend a bit in a strong breeze.