1. Another anecdote about the Australians. Many years ago I was visiting St. Paul's Cathedral in London. You can go up to a walkway around the dome.
I was standing there, looking a long way down over the rail, when a very heavy Australian accent from behind me said...
I was standing there, looking a long way down over the rail, when a very heavy Australian accent from behind me said...
2. "It's a long way, deeaawwn, isn't it, mayte?" I turned around, and it was a smiling old guy with his wife. He just started talking to me, like he knew me. He starts telling me an anecdote about a friend of his who fell off the roof of his house while he was...
3. ...painting it. He and his wife looked like very nice people, old small-town pensioners going on a vacation. Not a care in the world.
Finally, his wife says, "Oh, John, don't bother the man with all that. He doesn't want to hear that..." It was hilarious.
Finally, his wife says, "Oh, John, don't bother the man with all that. He doesn't want to hear that..." It was hilarious.
4. Then the old guy says, "Well, got to be off, then." And he walked off and rejoined his wife.
Good people, good salt-of-the-earth people.
Good people, good salt-of-the-earth people.
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