Splendid but Hopeless
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the city centre, Gradually however the crowd thinned slightly, the driver put his foot down and after a certain amount of stuttering and coughing, the ailing vehicle slowly built up speed. Thereafter the driver's technique for dealing with any obstacle was to blow his horn and accelerate towards it. Miraculously the obstacle would melt away at the very last moment, or if it didn't, we simply swerved around it without slackening speed. Considering the alarming degree of play in the steering wheel, this was quite a feat. I began to believe that the plastic Hindu gods which dangled in profusion from the windscreen, partially obscuring the driver's view, really
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