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When I lived in Athens, in the early 1970’s ,I stopped at some traffic lights on the coast road and one of the most elegant, beautiful women imaginable, dressed in a flowing white gown,  walked up to my white TR3a, stepped over the side, slid into the seat, and commanded:

“Take me to the Venezuelan Embassy”.

I turned my head and said, “Certainly Madam, but why do you want to go there?”

In a totally expressionless voice she looked straight ahead and replied:

“My father is the ambassador.”

I was a 21-year-old kid.

I thought my luck was in.

 

When we arrived at the embassy I said:

“Would you care to have dinner with me tonight?”

 

In the same totally expressionless voice, and still without turning her head, she replied:

“No”.

Not even “No thank you, but thanks for the ride.”

Just:

“No”

So, sometimes a TR can just be a Taxi.

Charlie.

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Thanks Charlie and happy to be proven wrong reading that....

 

Can’t help thinking though of how you must be forever thinking back: “If only....... the 3A had been a signal red one”? - Likely, you’d now be Venezuelan nobility!

 

(Not to spoil your memories. Don’t know if you have been back to Athens recently? I’m going on Monday, it’s been a sad place, on a number of levels, for the past few years) 

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