There are those who believe mildly in superstition and some whose lives are based on it, while a third group would deliberately walk under a ladder to prove that all superstition is rubbish. Most wouldn’t think too long about flying on Friday 13, but given the choice of the 14^th and 15th, how many would still choose the 13^th?
   The Dial-a-Cab drivers who accepted ‘As Directed’ jobs at Gatwick Airport on Friday 13 May had probably not even given the date a passing thought, however, some of the 1000 passengers who had just been flown home from Portugal a week before the scheduled end of their Thomson holiday cruise might have disagreed.
   They had all been on the maiden voyage of the Thomson Celebration cruise liner which had left Southampton one week earlier, but due to plumbing problems the toilets didn’t work properly and…well you wouldn’t want to know the rest!
   One passenger told Call Sign:    “My cabin wasn’t too bad, perhaps because I was travelling alone. Some family cabins were having terrible problems using the loos. There  were plumbers on board working flat out, but they obviously couldn’t correct the problem. Once it became apparent that the cruise would have to be curtailed, Thomson were wonderful. We were all 

FRIDAY 13 – NOT UNLUCKY FOR DAC DRIVERS!

The Thompson Celebration ready to leave Southampton on its ill-fated maiden voyage.

BRIAN RICE CELEBRATES THIRTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY

Dial-a-Cab Chairman Brian Rice and his wife Brenda recently celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary by taking a cruise with their family to the Norwegian Fiords. 
   Brenda first met Brian at Tiffany’s in Wimbledon and remembers that he always had an audience of women around him hanging on to his every word. She said to her friend at the time: “Don’t talk to that flash blonde Adonis over there, he really fancies himself!” But she gradually fell under his spell and hasn’t looked back since.
   And Brian’s view? “I can understand the blonde Adonis reference… but flash? Me? Never…!”
   Brenda’s wedding bouquet consisted of yellow roses and every anniversary since, Brian has bought Brenda a number of yellow roses to match the number of years.
   “It wasn’t too bad in the early years,” said Brian, “but it’s costing me a fortune nowadays! Had I known we would still be together all these years later, I’d have made the original bouquet in daffodils!”

Brian and Brenda celebrate on-board ship

   And what’s the secret of such a long and happy marriage?
   “I think I’d agree with the couple who
recently entered the Guinness Book of  
Records after celebrating their 80^th anniversary. Although, sadly, he has since died, his two-word answer to that question will live on. Whatever your wife says, just reply: “Yes dear…!”