RANDOM REMINDER
ALL TOGETHER NOW
Avonside drive is an attractive thoroughfare, what with the handsome mansions which line its banks, the dipping willows, and the broad-chested oarsmen and all, but, for the motorist, it presents its problems. It is not so much a matter of the twists and turns, as the great hump in the road as it crosses Stanmore road. This is a fairly steep slope, and who could wonder that the lady motorist who had to stop at the interesection, to allow the north-south traffic to flow, should slide gently backwards as she released her hand-brake? It was not so bad, really, for the lady motorist behind her saw her coming in time, and also slid back. That was
the first time. The second time the lady first in line went downhill, while attempting to make her break across Stanmore road, she bumped into number two, but numbers three and four, new arrivals, went backwards in time, and in concert. The lady who was a sort of mechanised head of the river tried a third time. The whole line of cars behind her, now numbering about 10, slid gently backwards, then forwards again with her, and it all looked like a movement of the Boston Two-step. At Attempt number four, lady number one struck lady number two a second blow, and it was time for some sort of action. As they all pulled up again,' waiting for more of the Stanmore road traffic which had
appeared while the slurfling had been in progress, lady number two left her car and asked lady number one if she would stop for a little chat when she eventually crossed the road. This feat was accomplished, after a little while, and the first lady duly pulled up on the side of the road. The second lady stopped too, and alighted. But before she could utter a word of recrimination, lady number one had the situation firmly in hand. “Didn’t you see my L plate?” she said, briskly. Lady number two said she had, but asked what that had to do with it. “Don’t you realise," said lady number one, with some asperity, “that I have certain privileges?”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 26
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365RANDOM REMINDER Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31363, 8 May 1967, Page 26
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