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What brilliant stories.
Many years ago a friend of mine was sent on teaching practice (we were at teacher training college) to a very posh boys prep school. He was just a working class lad from South Wales. On the first day he was getting to know his tutor group, and began by asking them what their fathers (remember this is history) did for a living. As he went around the class the responses he was getting were typically 'the ambassador to Chile', 'Vice President of BP', 'Foreign Secretary' etc etc. He was feeling some what intimidated by this, and then one young lad piped up 'Conductor'. He felt 'at last someone I have something in common with', and my friend responded 'oh yes, well actually my dad is also a conductor, he works on the Swansea buses'. A very pregnant silence decended on the room. At which point my highly perceptive friend realised that his interjection was perhaps not getting the friendly response from the boy that he expected. The boy in question looked at my friend with considerable disdain and said, ' I meant that he is Conductor of the London Philamonic (?) Orchestra'. It was not his best day.  |