Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Local knowledge

This man gets in touch with an old schoolfriend and agrees to spend Christmas with him in York in Yorkshire. He has never been to Yorkshire before but sets off driving up the M1 and the A1.
He has forgotten to take a map and does not recognise any of the names on the roadsigns. He sees a car in a layby ahead and stops behind it. He goes to the drivers window and taps on the glass. A grey haired lady winds down the window an inch.
The man says.
"I am trying to get to York to visit an old schoolfriend and I am lost. Do you know the York turn-off?"
The grey haired lady says,

"Know it? Know it! I've been married to it for 20 years"

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