[CS-FSLUG] JUST A TAP ON THE SHOULDER

[Fred A. Miller]

A passenger in a taxi 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 glass
window.

For a few moments everything was silent in the cab. Then, the still
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 he didn't
realize that a mere tap on the shoulder would startle the driver 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 the past 25 years.

-- 
I call several liberals friends. Fortunately I don't require my friends to be
intelligent, able to think logically, or politically astute.