Today's laugh
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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I dated a mortician for about six months. Very twisted sense of humor, and some jarring stories. She used to run errands in the hearse all the time, with a body in the back. I left her for several reasons, one of being that she asked if she could be the one to embalm me when I die. She enjoyed her profession a little too much.
Good one Buzz, my smile for the morning.
There's one thing to be said for it - it's steady work. There's no shortage of death. She had a lot of stories about maggots, andhow super glue is a mortician's best friend. I know I couldn't do it.
Waaay too much Hal. If she wanted to embalm you that much, you can never tell when she might get impatient waiting for the big day.