ARMS DEALER

He was with a client in London for a lunchtime meeting at The Dorchester. Their car had been taken for valet parking and the two men walked towards the entrance and the commissionaire. As they stepped up beside him a car in the street backfired and both arms dealer and client hit the deck. The arms dealer said I ought to have seen the expression on the poor commissionaire's face when they stood up and dusted themselves down. The man so wanted to laugh but that was rather ruled out by his job description.