Jennifer watched as the cashier rang up her purchases. "Cash, check or charge?" she asked, after folding the items Jennifer had bought. As Jennifer fumbled for her wallet, the cashier noticed a remote control for a television set in her purse.
"Do you always carry your TV remote with you?" the cashier inquired.
"No," she replied. "But my husband, Jeff, refused to come shopping with me, so I figured this was the most evil thing I could do to him."
Last London tramIn 1952, thousands of onlookers watched the run of London's last tram, which ran from Woolwich to New Cross. At the beginning of the century, a large, integrated tram system had been developed in London and its suburbs. But by the 1920's and 30's trams came to be seen as noisy and dangerous to other road users, and by the early 1930s the golden age of the tram was drawing to a close. A Royal Commission in 1931 recommended that trolleybuses replace trams. Conversion had began in 1931, and by 1940 more than half of London's trams had been scrapped. The tram system had a brief respite during WW II when it was necessary to sustain the current system as production turned to wartime manufacturing.* |
