Constable Around the Village (2012)
“Alfred Denis Godler, 1856–1925 One of the inescapable features of a police officer’s life is to be told incessantly about parking tickets. In company, the moment one’s true occupation is known, out come all the harrowing tales of parking problems; he is told how the speaker parked only for the briefest of moments while he changed his library book/bought himself underpants/waited for the wife/suffered from dampness on his coil or got involved in some other accident of history. Never is a motori...st at fault in such circumstances; everyone else is, especially the police.
Police officers who suffer from such ear-bending sessions can sympathise with doctors who are bored about operations, solicitors who are cornered by convicted innocents and plumbers who can’t get away from rattling taps or overflowing cisterns. For this reason, policemen who go on holiday seldom admit their true occupation—only a masochist would do that. Holidaying constables announce to their audience that they are variously employed as clerks for the government, officers in local authority employment, out-of-work salesmen, bingo callers or members of other sundry occupations.MoreLess
Police officers who suffer from such ear-bending sessions can sympathise with doctors who are bored about operations, solicitors who are cornered by convicted innocents and plumbers who can’t get away from rattling taps or overflowing cisterns. For this reason, policemen who go on holiday seldom admit their true occupation—only a masochist would do that. Holidaying constables announce to their audience that they are variously employed as clerks for the government, officers in local authority employment, out-of-work salesmen, bingo callers or members of other sundry occupations.MoreLess
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