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Customer: Adelaide!
Clerk: Adelaide,
Customer: No. Ah, I remember - Vienna!
Clerk: Vienna?
Customer: Vienna.
Clerk: Vienna's in Austria.
Customer: That's what I said.
Clerk: No, you didn't. You said
'Australia'.
Customer: Did I?
Clerk: So this is going to Josephine
Wellington in Vienna, Austria.
Customer: Yes, How much is it?
Clerk: That depends on the weight.
Customer: Pardon?
Clerk: Weight,
Customer: Oh. OK.
(The customer starts walking
back to the 'Wait here' sign.)
Clerk: No! I didn't say (Indicating the
sign) 'wait'. I said (Indicating
the scales on the counter)
'weight'.
(The clerk weighs the parcel.)
Clerk: Two and a half kilos. That's
£17.50.
Customer: £17,50?! That's very expensive,
Clerk: Well, he is going by air.
Customer: By air? Napoleon can't go by air!
Clerk: Why not?
Customer: He's a fish, not a bird.
Clerk: No, he's going on an aero plane
Customer: On an aero plane?
Clerk: Yes
Customer: How extraordinary! I'm going on
an aero plane today.
Clerk: Really?
Customer: Yes. I'm going to visit my
daughter.
Clerk: Your daughter Josephine?
Customer: Yes.
Clerk: In Vienna?
Customer: Yes.
Clerk: Well, why don't you take
Napoleon with you?
Customer: Take Napoleon with me?
Clerk: Yes. On the aero plane.
Customer: Take Napoleon with me on the
aero plane?
Clerk: Yes! To Vienna!
Customer: Of course! Take Napoleon with
me on the aero plane to Vienna!
Clerk: Yes!
Customer: And then when I get to Vienna,..
Clerk: Yes!!
Customer: ...I can post him from there!
(The customer picks up the parcel
and leaves.)
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