[TR] Interesting experience

[pethier at comcast.net]

A number of bygone British phrases come to mind, but I am cautioned by Lotusphile Mike Causer that I sound like Bertie Wooster.

Oh, what the hell...

Jolly good show!

Phil Ethier West Side Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1973 Triumph Stag LE22439UBW "uncle jack", Sapphire Blue
2004 Suburban 8.1, Sport Red, the only automatic of the bunch
2005 Lotus Elise, Bordeaux Red Pearl
2007 Saturn Ion 3 2.4, Berry Red
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Macartney" <flywheelcoventry1 at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: triumphs at autox.team.net
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:47:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [TR] Interesting experience
> I recently watched a film on UK TV about a young lady, fresh out of
> high
> school at 16 with few qualifications to her name. She'd got a love
> affair with
> Bug Eye Sprites (yes, I know its the wrong list) but what she did was
> a_mazing.
> She aspired to run her own Hairdressing Salon and this meant two
> days a week at school learning about hair and make-up etc etc and four
> working
> as a trainee. She saved her pennies and bought a real basket case of a
> 1960
> Sprite. Dad said that if she was that determined he'd help her if she
> asked
> him - but she didn't.
> So she went to night school to learn how to cut steel
> sheet and weld. Then she did a course in mechanics, followed by
> another course
> in painting and she read every book she could find in the local
> library about
> car restoration and the mysteries of Lucas. Bless her, five years
> later she'd
> finished that Sprite. It was drop dead gorgeous (though she was
> prettier) and
> on its first outing to a classic car show, she won Car of the Day.
> As a result
> of all that determination, she then won sponsorship from an Enterprise
> Forum
> and opened her own Salon and, apart from still using her Sprite, now
> has two
> more Salons on the go. Pretty good going for someone under 25 who made
> up her
> mind she was going to do it all herself and especially someone who
> isn't
> afraid of hard work!
> 
> Jonmac
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