Tell us something really trivial about your life (Vol 28)
Discussion
My only full lap of the M25 was in 1988. I had to go to Essex and came back by carrying on round the same way. At the time I was doing some freelance modelmaking and I'd made a representation of a computer game for a photographer for a magazine cover. He was chuffed with the model and was full of how it was the beginning of a great business relationship and he could foresee us doing all sorts of things together. He went on at such length about our future cooperation he walked out to the car with me. Unfortunately, with the Range Rover and XJS being a bit juicy, I had taken my rather dilapidated 1963 Austin 1100. It had belonged my Great Uncle Jack and my mother had asked me to, "Fetch it, say nice things about it, pay him what he asks and drive it to the breakers." I paid fifty quid for a one owner, low mileage, well maintained car so obviously I used it for three years until it refused to pass an MoT. The photographer took one look and his whole demeanour changed. He bid me farewell and I never heard from him again.
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