The two unrelated Customers were in the Rovers on the night of Fred Gee's birthday. The woman only came in to return some empties and had to endure a birthday kiss from Fred. She then listened as the male customer told her and Betty Turpin a corny joke about a woman who walked into a bank with a £1 note in one ear and £5 in the other and a clerk told another man that "she's got £6 in her ears".