LONGER

The postman got in the lift with his bike and the two of us already in there moved to one side.
‘There you go,’ he said, ‘all the way in.’
‘As the bishop said to the actress,’ said the other man wasn’t me.
‘I was talking about the length of the lift,’ said the postman.
‘It’s much longer than the old lift, isn’t it’ I said. ‘Means you don’t have to stand your bike on its end.’
‘Yes,’ said the postman, ‘I’m glad they made it longer.’
‘That’s what the wife said,’ the other man wasn’t me said and the three of us laughed.