Discussion Groups / English Usage / November 2006

I spotted this item on the internet and thought that this group may enjoy
it:

When I was a kid I went to college in Boston (where there are over a hundred
4-year degree-granting institutions by the way). I majored in English, and
to make ends meet I drove a cab at night.
This guy gets into my cab and asks to be taken to the airport. He was in
town for business and he's leaving. Then he says to me,
"I was kinda busy this trip, and there are some things I didn't get to try.
Where do you suppose I could have got scrod around here?"
I thought for a second, then I said,
"You know, I've been driving this cab for three years now and I must have
heard that question a thousand times, but that's the first time anyone's
asked it in the pluperfect subjunctive."