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SMILE AT
CHRISTMAS
The Taxi Tour
A Japanese client was in London with his
family for the first time and phoned
Dial-a-Cab to arrange for a taxi sightseeing
tour of London. Midway through the trip, the
driver could sense some excitement coming
from the back.
"Something the
matter, Sir" he enquired in the
polite way that DaC drivers always do?
"Ah," said
the Japanese man, "you see Honda car
pass taxi? Honda, very fast! It made in
Japan!"
A short time passed and
again the driver sensed some excitement from
the back.
"Another
Toyota," enquired the driver?
"No," said
the Japanese man, "Mitsubishi just
speed past taxi. Mitsubishi, very fast! It
made in Japan!"
Another few minutes passed
and the same thing happened. Before the
driver could even ask, the passenger said: "You
see Nissan pass taxi? Nissan very fast! Made
in Japan!"
The driver was a little
angry, but being a Dial-a-Cab driver, he
maintained his dignity.
As the taxi and its occupants
neared their hotel, the Japanese man asked
the driver why the fare had come to so much?
"Ah," said
the driver, "meter, very fast! Made
in Japan…!"
A
Visit to the Shrink
A man went to a psychiatrist
and explained how his wife’s behaviour was
affecting him badly.
"Doctor,"
he said, "my wife is unfaithful to
me. Every evening she goes to Larry's bar
and picks up men. In fact, she sleeps with
anybody who asks her! I'm going crazy. What
do you think I should do?"
"Relax,"
said the Doctor, "take
a deep breath and calm down. Now tell me,
where exactly is this Larry's bar…?"
The 40-Year
Curse
An old man went to a Wizard to ask if he
could remove a curse he had been living with
for the previous 40 years. The Wizard said:
"It’s possible,
but you will have to tell me the exact words
that were used to put the curse on
you."
Without hesitation, the old
man said: "I
now pronounce you man and wife"
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DAC’S TAIWO MISSES
OUT ON NIGERIAN ELECTION |
In
October 2002, Dial-a-Cab call taker
Prince Taiwo Oladokun
for all children, together with sporting
excellence and artistic achievements.
These I will pursue and accept as a
civic obligation to build a better and
greater Nigeria."
Sadly,
Taiwo lost in the party primaries and so
did not contest the general election for
a position in the Nigerian Federal House
of Representatives.
However,
that wasn’t going to hold Taiwo back.
Soon after the election, he was
appointed as a Director of the Osun
State of Nigeria Rural Development Board
and the inauguration of
that Board was done earlier on this
month by the Governor of Osun State.
Taiwo
ended by asking Call Sign to pass on his
best wishes to all the friends he made
in the DaC Call Centre during his time
here.
"I
miss them all," he said…
Gureje-Thompson – "just call me
Taiwo" – made surely the
strangest directional change of any call
taker ever to have graced any of our
three call centres. The young-looking
37-year old returned to his home City of
Lagos, Nigeria, to stand for election to
the Federal House of Representatives.
Taiwo
had previously worked in the Chief
Mechanical Engineers Office at the
London Department of Transport and also
as a Business Development Officer at an
e-business consulting company.
However,
Taiwo’s family have a long history in
Nigeria and according to the
Reverend Samuel Johnson’s book
on The History of the Yoruba’s – a
tribe |
long-noted for their culture
– Taiwo’s descendents fought on the
frontline during the Kiriji War from
1878 to 1886.
He told Call Sign just before leaving
for Nigeria that his objective was to
offer a selfless service towards the
development and self-reliance of the
Nigerian community and to perform his
duties conscientiously and with the
highest level of integrity. Nigeria has
a past record of political impropriety,
but Taiwo felt that he could make a
difference.
"My policy will be aimed at
culture reorientation and development of
robust policies to create a stakeholder
society and economy to solve problems
through public initiative and
development of public institutions,
rather than through individualism,"
he told a stunned Call Sign Editor!
He ended by telling us:
"The concept held dear in any
civilised community should be the ethic
of care in medicine, of justice in
courts, of service in the public sector
as well as good education.
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