2: Tom Matthews Motors

It was a mystery to me that we had so much room around the car dealership and yet, the used car manager always complained about where I parked my little Morris Minor. 

OK! 

Sure! it did leak some oil. 

IN FACT IT LEAKED PINTS OF OIL!

He moaned all the time that it didn’t quite fit “the look” of the Rover-Isuzu Dealership’s image. 

He also added that it was “embarrassing to have such an old car wreck laying around abandoned wherever you find a hole Gordon”. 

I was soon assigned a spot up the road and out of sight. 

It was at the local pub’s car park. 

I reckon if you went there today, you would still see the patches of oil left by the mighty Morris. 

One day a salesman asked me if I wanted to get out of "that old shit heap of a Morris Minor” and drive a proper car. 

It appeared that he had pulled off the deal of the century on the sale of a new Isuzu and had taken in a great car as a trade in.

He slapped me on the back and whispered in my ear 

“Hey Gordon! I’ve just traded in a car and it just has your name written all over it mate” 

Then, oh dear, he did what I eventually found myself doing over, and over again in my future career in sales. 

He puppy dog closed me. “Take it home over the weekend and see if you like it, no pressure”

Monday morning. He walked up to me with a questioning look on his face.

I heard myself saying out loud. SOLD!

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