– Where have you been?
– I had a break.
– Did you have a Kit-Kat?
– Our abroad friends may not understand that quip.
– I’m not so sure. I think it’s a reference that’ll have global resonance. Let’s try it. Did you have a Kit-Kat?
– No, I broke my leg.
– Quelle horreur! May one ask how that came about?
– I fell off the roof.
– What, pray, were you doing on the roof?
– I was having a chocolate-covered wafer bar confection created by Rowntree’s of York.
Martin Stannard
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