Gus,

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:46:38 -0600, Gus S Calabrese wrote:

> One of the best places to drive for me is the U.K.
> I once passed a queue of about 100 cars without realizing they were  
> all waiting for a
> construction delay to end.  When I got to the front, the driver in  
> the front car asked me
> what I was doing.  I said,  "oh, i am sorry, I see i have jumped  
> ahead of all these cars"
> 
> He smiled and waved me in front of him.  He turned and shouted to the  
> car behind him,
> " it's a yank"  this phrase was shouted on down the line of cars as  
> far as I could hear.

ROFL!  He was passing the message so that the lynch mob could be disbanded... queueing is national passtime, and queue-jumping is a 
hanging offence, but "being a foreigner" is a valid defence!  :-)

Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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