EXTENDED JOURNEY

A man from the south of England had too many drinks in a bar on the way home from work one day and lost track of the time. Fortunately he just managed to catch what he thought was the last train of the day out of London to his home town of Basingstoke. However, he soon found out that while the train he had boarded passed through Basingstoke, it didn't stop at Basingstoke. He had climbed on an express train that went straight on to Southampton. He decided that if the train slowed down enough at Basingstoke, he would probably be able to jump off. The train did slow down at the station, and the unlucky traveller grabbed his bag, jumped on to the platform and then began running alongside the train to reduce his speed. As the next coach passed him, he was suddenly yanked back onto the train by another man who said: "Lucky I saw you running. Didn't you know this train never stops here?"

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