C.U.S. Molls

CUS carried many passengers during their 11 years of travels, some on a more frequent basis than others. Among the guest list were girls or C.U.S. molls as they became to be known. They were always pretty and always had a sense of humour.
There was one Moll called Liz, she lived at Oldbury upon Severn opposite Lone and her husband was a Spaniard who drank in the Anchor bar and borrowed Lones lawn mower.
Biggars once asked Lone what Juan family name was. Lone said Kerr!
Unusually Liz was not given a CUS nickname so Liz who was pretty and petite remained Liz.
It had been a particularly busy morning for CUS; there were the tyres to mark so that when they stopped at the paper shop the nearest mark to the ground won. The temperature to be noted so that when the car passed Patchway Motors, which had a digital temperature gauge on the roof, the figure could be taken and finally Garth had a new batch of puerile jokes to entertain CUS with. Liz, who had hitched a lift, was on the way to a typing exam and Garth had reduced her to tears with his Country House Fire joke. She jumped out of the car at the traffic lights unable to see for laughing and collided with the traffic lights metal post.
Much later in The Anchor bar she told CUS of her day. She had somehow made it to the exam room with her eyes streaming and occasionally startling a passer-bye with explosions of suppressed laughter. The exam was another matter. When the examiner called for silence, Liz knew she was in trouble. She stared at the exam paper in desperation, trying to focus on the place where it said “Your name here”. The silence was palpable and she was aware that her shoulders were shaking and the examiner was looking at her with some concern. Eventually she could contain it no longer as the punch line for the joke surfaced in her mind. She exploded! She gave a huge snotty guffaw and fled from the room.