Innocent abroad
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Innocent abroad
I took the train to work today. Waiting to buy my ticket, I overheard a suit (tieless), carrying a beautiful briefcase, ask for a single return ticket. To his credit, the booking clerk/station master refrained from making the man wait until he worked out what he ought to say.
It may be drivel, but it's not meaningless.
Re: Innocent abroad
Is that a bit like the bloke who asked the Ticket Seller in the Rail Ticket Office for a return ticket.
"Certainly Sir", replied the Ticket Seller, "Where to?"
"Back here" came the riposte!
"Certainly Sir", replied the Ticket Seller, "Where to?"
"Back here" came the riposte!
Re: Innocent abroad
My poor American brain is failing to see the joke here... isn't a return ticket another name for a round trip ticket?
So a single return ticket would be, to quote a famous Hobbit, there and back again?
So a single return ticket would be, to quote a famous Hobbit, there and back again?
Glenn Elliott
Re: Innocent abroad
unless the brits meant .. to infinity and beyond?Glenn E. wrote:My poor American brain is failing to see the joke here... isn't a return ticket another name for a round trip ticket?
So a single return ticket would be, to quote a famous Hobbit, there and back again?
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Re: Innocent abroad
Single = one way
Return = round trip
American humour = ?
Return = round trip
American humour = ?
"The first duty of Port is to be red"
Ernest H. Cockburn
Ernest H. Cockburn
Re: Innocent abroad
Just one return ticket, please, as today I am travelling alone.
Might be said as ‟single return”.
Sighs.
Might be said as ‟single return”.
Sighs.