HUMOUR FOR CLASSIC CAR LOVERS

THE PROUD OWNER OF A MAGNIFICENT

1956 CHEVROLET CONVERTIBLE,

WROTE TO SAY HE HAD RESTORED

THE CAR TO PERFECTION OVER

THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND SENT THIS:
 
ON A VERY WARM SUMMER

AFTERNOON HE DECIDED TO

TAKE HIS CAR TO TOWN. 

IT NEEDED GAS, AS THE GAUGE WAS

PRACTICALLY ON EMPTY,

BUT HE WANTED ICE CREAM,

SO HE HEADED FIRST TO

HIS FAVOURITE ICE CREAM SHOP.
 
HE HAD TROUBLE FINDING A

PARKING SPACE AND HAD TO PARK

THE CAR DOWN A SIDE STREET.  

HE NOTICED A GROUP OF YOUNG GUYS

STANDING AROUND SMOKING

CIGARETTES AND EYEING THE

CAR RATHER COVETOUSLY. 

HE WAS A BIT UNEASY

LEAVING IT THERE,

BUT PEOPLE OFTEN TAKE INTEREST

IN SUCH AN OLD AND

WELL-PRESERVED CAR,

SO HE WENT OFF TO ENJOY

HIS ICE CREAM.
 
THE LINE AT THE ICE CREAM SHOP

WAS LONG AND IT TOOK HIM Q

UITE A WHILE TO RETURN TO HIS CAR. 

WHEN HE DID,

HIS WORST FEARS WERE REALISED

HIS CAR WAS GONE.
 
HE CALLED THE POLICE AND

REPORTED THE THEFT AND THEN

WENT BACK AND BOUGHT A

QUART OF PISTACHIO ICE CREAM. 

ABOUT TEN MINUTES LATER THE

POLICE CALLED HIM TO SAY

THEY HAD FOUND THE CAR

ABANDONED NEAR A GAS STATION

A FEW MILES OUT OF TOWN.
 
IT WAS UNHARMED

AND HE WAS RELIEVED. 

IT SEEMS JUST BEFORE HE CALLED,

THE POLICE HAD RECEIVED A CALL

FROM A YOUNG WOMAN WHO

WAS AN EMPLOYEE AT A

SELF-SERVICE GAS STATION. 

SHE TOLD THEM THAT

THREE YOUNG MEN HAD DRIVEN IN

WITH THIS BEAUTIFUL

OLD CONVERTIBLE. 

ONE OF THEM CAME TO THE WINDOW

AND PREPAID FOR 20 DOLLARS’

WORTH OF GAS.
 
THEN ALL THREE OF THEM WALKED

AROUND THE CAR. 

THEN THEY ALL GOT IN THE CAR

AND DROVE OFF,

WITHOUT FILLING THE TANK.
 
THE QUESTION IS,

WHY WOULD ANYBODY STEAL A CAR,

PAY FOR GAS THAT THEY

NEVER PUMPED AND THEN

ABANDON THE CAR LATER

AND WALK AWAY?

THEY COULDN'T FIND WHERE TO PUT THE GAS!