The Man in the Luggage Compartment

Calais Port: September 2006

A Man With No Trousers On

Waiting to board our ferry we were watching a Czech tourist coach where the driver opened the first two luggage doors for the passengers to get their pullovers out of their suitcases, then when they’d all got themselves kitted-out for the windy bleak crossing and gone back to their seats, he opened the third luggage door and out popped a man with no trousers or shoes and socks on. He was the second driver and he’d been locked into the luggage compartment to have a snooze, he washed his face from the coach’s bog overflow and put his uniform on and . . . then the port official said hurry up the queue’s moving.