Tram Boarding Facilitator: This tram is now boarding, please move quickly into the tram.
Tram Boarding Facilitator: That's right folks, all aboard, move quickly into the tram.
Tram Boarding Facilitator: Both trams on this platform are travelling down St Kilda Road.
Tram Boarding Facilitator: The rear tram going to St Kilda and to the beach, all 5 carriages.
Tram Boarding Facilitator: The front tram going to Malven, which has no beach - well, not yet anyway: maybe if you come back in a thousand years they might have a beach by then.
Old Woman Next to Me: *chuckling* It's so nice to hear someone so funny early in the morning. He must enjoy his work.
Me: *smiles*
Old Woman Next to Me: People like that put a real sparkle into our morning.
Me: *smiles and nods*
Tram Boarding Facilitator: *answering a passenger's question* Surely, this tram does go to St Kilda, and I'm sorry I called you Surely.
Old Woman Next to Me: What did he say?
Me He said, "Surely this tram goes to st kilda and I'm sorry I called you Surely."
Old Woman Next to Me: *doesn't get it, not chuckling any more* Ah well, I don't suppose everything he says has to be funny.