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In my Humble Opinion

Mike Humble shares a smile-inducing story from when he was a mere slip of a lad.

Readers of a superb memory may recall I touched upon motor apprentices of today, and how in many cases, they don’t know they’re born. Compared to the modern world of ‘elf n safety reigning supreme (often for the right reasons I may add and a bloody hindrance in others) in my day of trainee spannering in the mid-to-late ‘80s at a massive Ford dealership – it was sometimes brutal, often hard work – but always interesting and a damn good laugh if you

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