Robbie and I have been having communication problems again. He came to meet me from work and he fell about laughing at my pronunciation of Merry Hill, Robbie insists that the only correct way to say it is to make it rhyme with 'very ill' but I just can't speak like that.
As I was driving home Robbie was chattering on far too fast as usual and I was tuning in an out depending on how much I needed to concentrate on the road. He told me it had been a bad day on the railways because they'd had problems with heart attack spot detectors failing. I was intrigued, I had never heard of this amazing invention and I wondered out loud if it was used for staff or passengers. He gave me a very odd look as if he was about to summon the men in white coats. He asked what I was talking about and then he explained that he hadn't said 'heart attack spot detectors' he had been talking about 'hot axle box detectors'. I was instantly bored, but my confusion was compounded when he went on to tell me that one of his trains had 'sat down' at Burton and it was stuck there until today because another train was off the road and was using the skates – something like that anyway! It didn't make any sense to me, I said that I thought they were supposed to stick to the rails and stay off the road, but Robbie just laughed at me and said that road means rails. I wonder if the doctor can give him some tablets to make him more normal?
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