🚦 The Signalman’s Test
The railway inspector folded his arms and looked seriously at Eddie.
“Let’s see how you handle pressure,” he said.
“What would you do if two trains were heading toward each other on the same track?”
Eddie answered instantly. “I’d switch one of them onto another track.”
The inspector nodded. “And if the lever broke?”
“I’d sprint down to the tracks and use the manual switch.”
“And if lightning had struck it?”
Eddie swallowed but stayed determined. “Then I’d run back up and call the next signal box.”
“What if the phone was busy?”
“I’d rush to the street and use the public phone outside the station.”
“And if that phone had been vandalized?”
Eddie paused dramatically.
“Well… in that case,” he said confidently, “I’d run into town and get my Uncle Lou.”
The inspector blinked. “Your Uncle Lou? Why?”
Eddie grinned.
“Because he’s never seen a train accident before — and this one sounds like it’s going to be spectacular.”
🚂 The Cow on the Track
A passenger train was inching forward painfully slowly — creaking, groaning, barely moving.
Finally, it stopped altogether.
A frustrated passenger leaned out the window and shouted,
“What’s going on?”
A conductor walking alongside the train called back,
“Cow on the track!”
Ten long minutes later, the train slowly began moving again.
But within five minutes… it stopped.
Again.
The same conductor walked by.
The woman leaned out once more and yelled,
“What now? Don’t tell me we caught up with the cow again?!”
🚆 The Backward Seat
A blonde wife returned home after her very first day commuting to the city.
She looked pale and slightly green.
Her husband rushed over. “Honey, are you okay?”
“Not really,” she groaned. “I feel sick from sitting backward on the train all morning.”
“Oh, sweetheart,” he said sympathetically. “Why didn’t you ask the person sitting across from you to switch seats?”
She sighed.
“I couldn’t… there was no one sitting there.”