INCIDENTALLY: Deadly Driver
A tourist is picked up by a cabbie in New York on a dark night. The passenger taps the driver on the shoulder to ask him something.
The driver screams, loses control of the car, nearly hits a bus, drives up on the sidewalk, and stops inches from a shop window.
For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, "Look friend, don't EVER do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!"
The passenger apologizes and says he didn't realize that a "little tap" could scare him so much.
The driver, after gathering himself together replied, "Gee sorry, it's not really your fault”.
”Today is my first day as a cabbie ” I've been driving hearses for the last 25 years!”
Following last week”s tale an anonymous reader called Tony has sent in the following:
”I used to live in a small village. The London-based daughter of one of the locals had quite a reputation for her outrageous behaviour and bevy of boyfriends ” she came down from town almost every weekend and seldom brought the same guy twice. It was the late '50s and villages, in those days, were rather prim and proper places, on the surface. She eventually married, in white. A few days later, we were entertaining the young vicar, who had conducted the service, to dinner and I said that I was amazed that the particular lady had even thought of marrying in white. He looked at me and said, very quietly, 'Anthony, white is a sign of rejoicing.' (No wonder he became a bishop a short time later!)”