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Client peu commode

Un client se présente dans un restaurant et se met à table. Le garçon, après l’avoir servi, se plante devant lui et n’en bouge plus. Le client, impatienté, fait signe au garçon de s’en aller. Mais comme le garçon reste immobile, le client le repousse à plusieurs reprises jusqu’à lui faire sauter la tête. Le garçon est toujours là. Furieux, le client se lève et, l’empoignant par les jambes, le fait tourner en l’air et l’envoie sous la table. Mais celui-ci se relève brusquement, prend un bougeoir, lui allume un pétard au derrière et le fait sauter.

PAT 1905-08

Impatient Customer

Customer in restaurant is annoyed by waiter remaining by his table after he has done his duties. He pushes him away, but the waiter immediately returns to the same spot. He then punches his face and knocks him down, but again the waiter comes back. The gent then catches him by the legs, and after whirling him round and round, throws him across the room. Again the waiter turns up, and the customer then bolts through the door, and his trousers are set on fire by the waiter. Very amusing.

The Era, London, September 9, 1905, p. 31.