CDuster
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Post by CDuster on Dec 18, 2011 14:39:36 GMT -6
Taxi driver - a true story... From the pages of the Manchester Evening Times
Last Wednesday a passenger in a taxi heading for Salford station leaned over to ask the driver a question and gently tapped him on the shoulder to get his attention.
The driver screamed, lost control of the cab, 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 apologized to the driver and said, "I didn't realize 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 cab. I've been driving a hearse for 25 years."
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Post by baldybaskcom on Dec 19, 2011 7:35:28 GMT -6
That's great.
Baldy
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Post by CDuster on Dec 19, 2011 15:07:40 GMT -6
Years ago A friend of mine was a pilot for a fixed base flying school and the flying service had a contract to transport bodies from funeral homes to their place of internment, Sometimes it might be thousands of miles away. He had just been hired and this was his first trip carrying a body. On a four passenger plane you carry the gurney board in the area next to the pilot aft to the rear seat and baggage space. He took-off from Houston and started a slow climb to cruising altitude, he was nervous of course being his first time. As one climbs higher, the air gets thinner and at about 3000 feet over east Texas the body gave out a loud "BELCH"........ Luckily he was strapped in because he would have probably bailed out. It took several minutes for him to calm down.
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