HAPPY NEW YEAR DIAL-A-CAB …FROM NEW YORK!

Age
To all those Dial-a-Cab drivers like myself and my DaC husband whose age is perhaps creeping up on them, have you ever been guilty of looking at others of your own age and thinking: "Surely I can’t look that old?" If so, you may enjoy this short story, but please don’t print my name. I wouldn’t want to embarrass hubby…!
   While waiting for my first appointment in the reception room of a new dentist surgery in Stanmore, I noticed a certificate that bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered that a tall, handsome boy with the same name had been in my secondary school class some 30 years earlier. Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, grey-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.
But after he had examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended the local Secondary modern school?
"Yes," he replied.
"What year did you leave," I asked?
"In 1967," he answered, "why…?"
"You were in my class!" I exclaimed.
He looked at me very closely and then asked: "What did you teach…?"
Death of a Traffic Warden…
A traffic warden had died and during the service the vicar heard a noise and asked for quiet. The noise continued and the vicar realised that the noise was actually coming from inside the coffin! Suddenly the noise was accompanied by a voice...
"Let me out, let me out," it cried, "don't bury me, I'm not dead!"
The vicar looked at the coffin for several seconds and said:
"I'm terribly sorry sir, but I've already started the paperwork...!"

Lucky Mike Higgins, Editor of New York’s most popular taxi mag Taxi Talk, has asked Call Sign to send his best wishes to all Dial-a-Cab drivers for a very happy New Year. But just to rub it in, he sent us a photo of him and his cab with a young lady from the BBC World Service who was doing a piece on NYC’s Yellow cabs. All we get over here are pics of Tom Whitbread wearing his old ambulance outfit – whatever turns you on, we suppose!
   And of course, a happy New Year to all Yellow cab drivers in New York who will be reading this on our Internet edition…