Travelling Adventure
Why do so many amusing incidents (39) __________ during train journeys? I want to tell you about one of such cases. So, I remember the day when a ticket inspector entered the (40) __________ where six or eight commuters were sitting. Everyone quickly found their tickets – (41) __________ for the man sitting next to me. His hands searched urgently into his pockets, and then he began to search through his briefcase. Everyone else could see (42) __________ where his ticket was – he was gripping it between his teeth.
The ticket inspector calmly dealt with all the other passengers. Then, equally calmly, he drew the ticket out from between the man’s teeth, (43) __________ it with a frown and popped it back again.
Once the inspector had left, most of the passengers (44) __________ down and carried on reading their morning papers. (45) __________ the passenger who’d had his ticket in his mouth, he popped it into his pocket, looking very relieved.
He was (46) __________ quite a friendly person, so to make (47) __________ I said to him, “You must have felt foolish – searching in all your pockets while it was in your mouth.”
“Foolish?” he whispered. “Not at all – I was chewing the date (48) __________.”
