Woman receives angry letter after sending message in a bottle out to sea: I just wanted a bit of romance

A woman was left shocked after her ‘message in a bottle’ was sent back with an angry letter – telling her to stop littering.Lorraine Forbes, 58, has long been sending plastic bottles with letters inside them out to sea with hopes of sparking a romantic connection with a stranger.Her messages have received responses from as far as Holland and France over the years – but she says that they have mostly washed back up on the shores of nearby beaches. However, Lorraine, from Eastbourne, East Sussex, recently received a “nasty” shock when one of her letters on the back of a John Lydon gig flyer came back with an angry note from a litter picker.The letter, which came in a box full of rocks and cost her $9 to accept, read: “Please stop throwing rubbish in the sea.It goes to Pevensey Bay or Normans Bay, one day later.

Many thanks, a rubbish picker.”Lorraine, who has lived by the seaside for 30 years, says that she was very shocked by the harsh letter, as her intentions were only to spark a connection. She said: “I have been sending the letters for years.Whoever writes back to me rarely want to meet me, they just tell me where they found them. “I just wanted a bit of romance.

It has always been a hobby of mine.It is an old-fashioned thing. “It was a cowardly litter picker who sent me the response.

I had to pay $9 to receive it.I think that it is really nasty.

They were trying to make a point and teach me a lesson. “I will never know who the person is that sent me the letter.They refused to put their name to it.

If they had I would demand that they give me my $9 back.”The letter, which featured Lorraine’s name and address on the back, was sent on September 5.The response arrived just over a month later on October 7.

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