“ON THE LIST”
MOTORISTS MODERNIST “THE MIKADO”
The obnoxious types of people about whom the Lord High Executioner sings a ditty in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera “The Mikado” was added to by members of the Automobile Association (South Canterbury) at their annual meeting last night. Members did not refer to “the man rho chews peppermint and coughs it in your face,” but they had various classes of motorist “on the list.”
“Can we not obliterate that vile person who thinks it necessarv to pull into the left-hand gutter when he is going to turn to the right?” asked Mr W. T. Ritchie. “He is a shocking person. Twice I have nearly had a collision through thinking he was going to stop.” “What about the man wh. puts out the little gadget on the righ. and then turns to the left?” asked Mr W. W. Baxter.
“And the man who doesn’t put the gadget out at all,” suggested another member.
“You have forgotten the ladles who put the gadget out and leave it out all the time,” said Mr M. H. Richards. “Like they du the washing on a fine day," came from the back of the room.
“You have to remember f rule that every other man on the 1 ad is a d fool,” advised the president (Mr S. G. McClelland) concluding the list.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20895, 26 November 1937, Page 8
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