A workman is sitting on a tram...

A workman is sitting on a tram in the 1930s reading a copy of Solidaridad Obrera when a priests takes a seat opposite him. Spotting the newspaper, the priest booms: “Anarchist, eh? Don’t you realise that very little separates the anarchist from the bandit?” The workman quietly folds up his newspaper, takes out a tape measure and measures the distance between himself and the priest. “Fifty centimeters”, he replies.

This appears in a short tribute to Bernabe Garcia Polanco in CNT (No 307, December 2004), Madrid.

Apparently he died in May 2004. It was one of the jokes he used to tell. 

Translated by: Paul Sharkey.