Now Arthur Daley here also had his own patois used on his car lot:
But that was just Cockney - Corblimey Mate! Luvaduck. Beales - Don't talk to me about Beales!
I've been meeting a few car salesmen lately. Never a car saleswoman - do they exist?
My wife is after a new (or newer) car - it all follows on from the little yellow light that appears in a photo in my earlier post about the MOT test. So far we've visited (in order of appearance) our local Toyota, Mazda, Hyundai and Ford dealers for test drives.
At the moment, my wife is being "up" while I am being "Third Baseman". However, I'm not very good at this. When she has finalised her choice, I will switch to being "Paperboy" - a role I recently played while purchasing our new family computer. I wasn't very good at that either.
I have seen a couple of "Lot lizards" and would wish them well with "de-horsing" given the condition of my wife's current car - but that doesn't tend to happen in Britain anyway - if they want to keep you in the place, they make you a hot coffee and you are supposed to feel guilty if you don't finish it.
If you want to understand the past two paragraphs, and this clever illustration...
...you will need to read the article.
However, if you want to understand Arthur Daley, and maybe spend some sausage and mash on a new jam-jar, then this site may be more useful.
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