An American tourist in London

[Jimbuna]

So this yank bugga gets into my black cab the other night. He hadn't been around London much, so I took him a good route round to show him a few sights.

"What's that?" he asked.

"That's Tower Bridge," I said. "Took 10 years to build."

"Pathetic, we Americans would have built it in a year."

I said nothing and drove on.

"What's that?"

"That's St Paul's Cathedral, mate."

"How long did that take?"

"That took 15 glorious years."

"15 years! We'd have done it in 8 months."

Started to get a bit pi$$ed off at this cheeky yank twunt, but I needed the fare.

"What about that?"

"That's the Tower of London, mate."

"How long?"

"20 years"

"HA! Useless Brits. We'd have built it in 6 months!"

I'd had enough. I drove him, the long way, to Buckingham Palace.

"And what's this then?" he asked.

"Dunno mate. Wasn't there yesterday."