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THE London double-decker bus was packed on the lower level, and the elderly woman who sat down next to me had had to stagger upstairs with two full shopping bags. When the conductor had collected all the fares, he came back and said to her, "Tell me where you're getting off, ma'am, and I'll carry your bags down for you." Good as his word, he handed her the bags from the platform when we reached her stop. "There's one passenger who thinks you're a perfect gentleman!" I said to the conductor as I got off the bus. "I don't know about that," he replied. "That was my mother-in-law."


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AS TOURISTS, my mother and I trod the historic streets of London, suitably awed by the history and permanence of everything around us, including street signs. Even on construction hoardings, on which we stencil the blunt admonition POST NO BILLS, the English use elegant signs. Headed the CITY OF WESTMINSTER and in red Old English script, one enameled sign proclaimed, BILL STICKERS WILL BE PROSECUTED. That the British also have an historic sense of humor and justice was shown by the graffito scrawled below, which protested - BILL STICKERS IS INNOCENT!

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