LUCKY'S MANNERS
                         By: Tony Lambert

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The car was a complete and utter lemon. From the moment he'd driven
the damn thing away from Lucky's Motors it had given nothing but
trouble, which made a cruel joke of the mandatory certificate of 
roadworthiness the salesman had brandished like some priceless
biblical parchment. He'd been done like a dog's dinner, then given
the run around over the three month warrantee period trying to have
the countless faults rectified. Well enough had become too much and
he'd finally taken the heap back to demand a refund. The slick
salesmen contemptuously treated this as a huge joke, and were
openly laughing at him when Lucky Wallace himself, the city's
leading car dealer, waddled out of the gleaming showroom. His nifty
gait belied the corpulent frame which fairly wobbled as he more
glided than walked over towards them. Despite the relative coolness
of the day the gross man sweated profusely, needing to constantly
mop at his face and neck with a customised terry towel. His shining
moon face jellied into a mirthless grin when he spied the young
student back yet again with the second hand wreck they'd
sniggeringly dumped on him, and he shook his overly large head in
mock dismay.

'Look son', he patronised in the high falsetto common to men of
obesity, 'You get what you pay for in this world and that motor
went for a very reasonable price. If you can't look after an aging
motor car with a bit of TLC then of course you gotta expect
problems!' he positioned puggy ham like fists on his ample hips and
inclined the upper part of his torso towards the two white shirted
salesmen, while fixing the complainant with an intimidating glare.
'Now, we've done the best we can for you sonny and I'm getting
kinda tired of seeing your whingeing face around here. If you
wan'na take out a loan and buy a decent motor vehicle then fine!
I'll be more than happy to organise finance. Easy! But you wan'na
stay with the cheapies then you pays yer money and you takes yer
chance........eh boys?'

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