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Safety with a kiss
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Reverting for a moment to last week's Bus Confederation conference, this really was a great success from every point of view, and Denis Quin and his merry men must be well pleased. The only problem is to maintain such a high standard in future years.
Rising to the challenge set by Sir Peter Masefiekl's very high standard of presentation in the first paper, America's Dr Bob Kaye decided at the last minute to tackle his serious subject (safety in transport) in a rather lighter manner than intended; the result was to hold the delegates' attention from start to finish and really put over some good thoughts about avoiding transport accidents.
Arnong his many stories I particularly liked the one about the American operator who decided that an angry . or upset driver was accidentprone, so the thing to do was to get the wives' co-operation in sending hubby off to work in the right frame of mind.
"Ladies," he said, " before your husband leaves in the morning, give him a great big hug and a passionate kiss."
The result was remarkable, said Dr Kaye. Eighty per cent. of the drivers were accident free and the other 20 per cent never turned up for work at all I