Queue-rious!
This pointed Italian story was broadcast recently in tho 8.8.C.’s French transmission. A workman arriving home tired and hungry after a hard day finds that all his wife has to give him for his meal is some miserable-looking gruel. He upbraids her, but she says she has been unable to do better, though not for want of trying. “To get bread,” she says, “one has to stand in a queue for hours; to get macaroni one has to stand in another queue; to get vegetables, in yet another queue—still longer. Everywhere one has to With set jaw the husband gets up, goes to a drawer and takes out a revolver. “What are you going to do?” his wife asks fearfully. “I can’t stand any more. I’ni going to shoot Mussolini.” He goes out. An hour drags by. The door opens, and, with a dejected air, the husband comes in. “My poor husband! You have killed him ? ’ ’ “I was unable to,” is the reply. “There, too, one must wait in a queue for hours. ’ ’
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 55, 6 March 1943, Page 6
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174Queue-rious! Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 55, 6 March 1943, Page 6
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