I was telling a bunch of friends about my brother’s experience in Poland and one of them came up with this story from her youth.

She had just qualified and was hitching home to the midlands. She was picked up by a man and she told him all about herself and her qualifications. She decided it was time to give him a chance to say something. “What do you do yourself?” she asked. “I’m in the music business,” he said. “Are you a roadie?” she asked. “No,” he said, “do you know Foster and Allen? I’m Allen.”