Famous for fifteen minutes

His girlfriend Lobelia told him that she had read that one day everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes, then she looked at him and said heavily 'with one exception'

Then driving to work his accelerator cable snapped. It was during the Thursday morning rush hour and he just managed to stop the car against the crash barrier, he switched on the cars hazard lights and crossed his fingers. Cars began passing him in the middle lane, their occupants glaring as they passed and one shook his fist at him!

He heard a police car siren as it came down the opposite carriageway, the policemen glared at him as they went past.

His radio suddenly broke in with a traffic announcement that 'a car had broken down in the fast lane near junction thirty causing a hold-up'. The police car arrived sirens wailing. A policeman got out and asked him what was wrong, he told him, the policeman sighed, then went back to his car for a tow rope, a few minutes later the police driver towed him, at high speed, to the side of the motorway. He just managed to stop inches from the back of the police car.

The police driver got out angrily telling him he'd almost caused an accident, he apologised but explained truthfully 'that towing manoeuvres had not been part of the driving test' the policeman sniffed at his breath and told him to wait for the breakdown van.

After the police left the radio announced that 'the broken down car near junction thirty had been moved to the hard shoulder and traffic was now flowing normally' From the first radio traffic announcement to the last it had been about fifteen minutes.

That night Lobelia listened to him in silence as he claimed his fifteen minutes of fame, then she glared at him and called him a Pratt for making her late that day before flouncing out and slamming the door behind her.

That really was fame… if only for fifteen minutes…