A stockbroker, on his way home from work in Liverpool, came to a dead halt in traffic and thought to himself, "Wow, this seems much worse than usual."
He notices a police officer walking between the lines of stopped cars, so he rolls down his window and asks, "Officer, what's the hold up?"
The officer replies, "Terry Maxwell is depressed, has been unemployed since being sacked as an actuary six months ago, so he stopped his car in the middle of the Mersey Tunnel and is threatening to douse himself in petrol and set himself on fire. He says he has spent all his money and sees no point in going on without embellished overtime payments. So we're taking up a collection for him."
The stock broker asks, "How much have you got so far?"
The officer replies "About 4 1/2 gallons, but a lot of people are still siphoning."
22/09/04 - a day to remember!