Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Humour => Topic started by: Baldrick on April 17, 2018, 05:31:33 pm

Title: Out of This World
Post by: Baldrick on April 17, 2018, 05:31:33 pm

An item from the pages of the London Evening Standard.Last Wednesday a passenger in the back of a minicab going to LiverpoolStreet Station leaned forward to ask the driver a question and gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb and stopped just inches from a large plate window.For a few moments everything was silent in the cab. Then, the shaking driver said “are you OK? I’m so sorry, but you scared the daylights out of me.”The badly shaken passenger apologised to the driver and said, “I didn’t realise that a mere tap on the shoulder would startle someone so badly.”The driver replied, “No, no, I’m the one who is sorry, it’s entirely my fault. Today is my very first day driving a minicab. I’ve been driving a hearse for the last 25 years.

Title: Re: Out of This World
Post by: dougal99 on April 17, 2018, 05:44:32 pm

Baldrick's entry


An item from the pages of the London Evening Standard. Last Wednesday a passenger in the back of a minicab going to Liverpool Street Station leaned forward to ask the driver a question and gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, drove up over the curb and stopped just inches from a large plate window. For a few moments everything was silent in the cab. Then, the shaking driver said “are you OK? I’m so sorry, but you scared the daylights out of me. ”The badly shaken passenger apologised to the driver and said, “I didn’t realise that a mere tap on the shoulder would startle someone so badly .”The driver replied, “No, no, I’m the one who is sorry, it’s entirely my fault. Today is my very first day driving a minicab. I’ve been driving a hearse for the last 25 years.

Title: Re: Out of This World
Post by: roycv on April 17, 2018, 07:01:19 pm

I have a feeling of deja vu,
Roy

Title: Re: Out of This World
Post by: TheLongBuild on April 17, 2018, 07:09:25 pm

The first post could not originally be read. Appears to have been corrected 

Title: Re: Out of This World
Post by: roycv on April 17, 2018, 07:12:32 pm

OHH!  I could read it OK, probably the benefit of my new glasses.
Roy

Title: Re: Out of This World
Post by: Baldrick on April 17, 2018, 07:20:10 pm

Thanks to whoever sorted it out for me , I was deep in trying to sort out the MBM formatting doo doo when the dinner bell went and nurse dragged me away.

Title: Re: Out of This World
Post by: ballastanksian on April 17, 2018, 07:34:27 pm

 {-) {-) {-) I love it!

Title: Re: Out of This World
Post by: Shipmate60 on April 17, 2018, 08:36:08 pm

Its OK we now do it as a matter of course.


Bob

Title: Re: Out of This World
Post by: BrianB6 on April 19, 2018, 11:46:04 pm

I used to have a shirt with the words "Why is it so hard to find Mauritius on a map?
Because it's out of this world"  %%