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Mar 02, 2013 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Let us lighten up a bit, and please forgive my perverse sense of humour.
When I read the woes of the chap and his car in Eping Avenue, Bel Air Park, on Mash Day, I was reminded of my experience in Spain in the 1980s.
The tour coach we were travelling in turned into a narrow street of cafés on either side, presumably as a shortcut, around lunchtime, and there was a car parked half on the pavement, half on the street, blocking the way. After sounding the horn for some minutes, with no one appearing, the coach driver jumped out, went into two or three cafés and emerged with enough sturdy men to handle the situation.
Three of them on each side, front, middle and back, lifted the car bodily and cheerfully moved it out of the way, allowing the coach to proceed on its journey. We tourists, mostly from Britain, were amazed and found these antics extremely funny. People can be selfish – or perhaps thoughtless.
In a strange way, it brought to mind the daily caper of fellow cruisers on the first transatlantic cruise I went on, roughly 10 years ago. Throughout the holiday, every day a few people would visit the sun-deck before breakfast and put stuff on as many deck chairs as possible, to ‘reserve’ them for friends and family and then disappear, sometimes for the rest of the day. Groups took turns each day for this caper.
By mid-morning every chair on the sun-deck would be ‘reserved’ for absent people, to the exclusion of those coming later.
It was an American cruiser and the Brits all complained about this practice – Brits love sunshine and probably felt cheated. In fact, they normally take holidays to experience the sun and perhaps get a tan.
The next year, there was a card in every cabin, letting guests know that patrols would remove stuff left on sun-deck seats for more than an hour and hold them in a room, from which they may be reclaimed between certain hours. That solved the problem. Do as you would be done by.
Geralda Dennison

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