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She should then listen attentively while the conductor calls out
the names of the streets and as he shouts "Blawmnoo!" she should
ask the man at her right "Did he say Madison Heights?" He will
reply "No." At the next street the conductor will shout
"Blawmnoo!" at which she should ask "Did he say Madison Heights?"
Once more the answer will be in the negative. The car will
proceed, the conductor will now call "Blawmnoo!" and as the
elderly lady once more says "Did he say Madison Heights?" the man
at her left, the man at her right, the man across the aisle and
eight other male passengers will shout "YES!"
It is then correct for her to pickup her umbrella and, carefully
waiting until the conductor has pulled the "go ahead" signal, she
should cry "Wait a minute, conductor--I want to get off here."
The car will then be stopped and she should say "Is this Madison
Heights?" to which the conductor will reply "This ain't the
Madison Heights car, lady." She should then say "But you called
out Madison Heights," to which he will answer "No, lady--that's
eight miles in the opposite direction." She should then leave the
street car, not forgetting, however, to take the conductor's
number again.
The above hints for "tram" car etiquette apply, of course, only
to elderly ladies. For young men and women the procedure would be
in many cases quite different. A young married woman, for
example, on entering a street car, should always have her ticket
or small "change" so securely buried in the fourth inside
pocketbook of her handbag that she cannot possibly find it inside
of twelve minutes.
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