"Laurence Payne"
wrote in message

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:35:08 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
wrote:

Or they go elsewhere. It's a privilege to have
employment now. Let us get on with it.

How did you ever manage in business before mobile
phones were invented, "dear"..?

How did you make a living before 'busses were invented?

I wasn't born, perhaps you were, I don't know. Anyway, to get back to
trains, I worked for BR for 15 years, although not on trains.

There was a time when you could say "I'm not ruining my
front door by cutting out a letter-box!". When you
could say "I refuse to install a 'phone! If they want
me, let them write!". When not having an answering
machine, a fax, email were possible options. When you
could say "I'm traveling today. I'll be out of touch for
several hours!".

None of these are currently possible. Tough, ain't it?

All of them are possible, what makes you say they're not..?

Incidentally, my living is driving buses, I don't see
why I should spend my entire working day subjected to
other people's noisy conversations. Or shall I come and
park myself in your office all day and make phone
calls..?

A bad analogy, and you know it.

Not so. My bus is my workplace, it is my office. I don't see why people
should be allowed to do what they want in it.

Ivor