<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421965" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Quiet Evening at the Pub</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It's my opinion, ' the stranger said, <br>Though nobody'd asked for his point of view, <br>'That a pint of this Scottish Export<br>Is best followed up by a chaser or two! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But the other drinkers simply ignored him, <br>He obviously had had a few, <br>Perhaps he was a travelling salesman, <br>At any rate, he was 'passing through'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So they continued to talk about football<br>As people in pubs quite often do, <br>Their little hobby was so important<br>And why he had spoken they hadn't a clue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well whats the matter with you b*stards? <br>Don't you realise that I'm talking to you? <br>You've got no manners but you'll regret it, <br>Do you know what I am going to do? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He took a gun from inside his jacket, <br>Three shot rang out, then another two, <br>Three regulars lay dead on the carpet, <br>The barman collapsed, he was wounded too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Pay attention, you stupid b*stards! <br>When a stranger gives you his point of view, <br>Just remember that a pint of Export<br>Is best followed up by a chaser or two! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's not that I'm being superstitious<br>But I'll tell you something between me and you, <br>The events of that evening have given me nightmares<br>That only recede when I've had quite a few.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wherever I travel since that awful night, <br>To Tipperary or to Timbuctoo, <br>I solemnly drink that Scottish Export, <br>And follow it up with a chaser or two! !</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Thorkild+Ellison">John Thorkild Ellison</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=421965" data-title="A Quiet Evening at the Pub de John Thorkild Ellison" data-description="'It's my opinion, ' the stranger said, Though nobody'd asked for his point of view, 'That a pint of this Scottish Export Is best followed up by a chaser or two! ' But the other drinkers simply ignored him, He obviously had had a few, Perhaps ..."></div> </div> </div>

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