While attending the Yorkshire Show on an annual basis,
Norman would aver: 'Gayner, I'd love to ride in the 'elicopter,'
provoking his wife's well-practised reply: 'I know Norman,
but the 'elicopter ride is twenty quid, and twenty quid is twenty
quid.' One year Norman asserted: 'Gayner, I'm 75 years old;
if I don't take that 'elicopter ride now I may never get another
chance.' 'Twenty quid is twenty quid,' came Gayner's default-setting
mantra.'
The pilot overheard their strained conversation and suggested:
'I'll make a deal with you; I'll take you both for a ride and if you
can stay quiet, I won't charge you a penny. But one
word and its twenty quid.'
They accepted and the pilot ran the gamut of his fancy manouevres
and daredevil tricks, and heard not a peep out of is elderly passengers.
On landing the pilot turned to Norman and confided: 'By golly, I did
everything I could to get you to yell but you stayed impressively
shtum throughout.'
To which Norman replied matter-of-factly: 'To tell you the truth
I almost said summat when Gayner fell out, but tha' knows
twenty quid is twenty quid!'
