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Show LE LIE ERI TEA DALE ugu t 16, 2001 r ally wanted it but he's done so much shouting about it he shad to go through with it. nd I thought boy, he s talking to me. He said, "What do you think of the opinion polls?" I said, Oh, they're pretty good." And I thought I must be the man in the street. He's getting as much information out of me as he can. And we were chatting like that. And then we got onto Knights Bridge and he said, "I've changed my mind, driver. I've got to go back to the apartment. You know where it is because you took us there the other night. I've got to pick up some papers." He said, "I'll walk out of the house." I said, Oh, very good, sir; alright." So I took him up to his apartment and pulled up on that side. He got out and he gave me a tip. I took a chance and I said, "I'm a little disappointed." And he said, "Why's that?" I said, "Well, I was looking forward to taking you to the House of Commons. I've never taken anybody there." He said, 'Hang on a minute. I'll pop in and get the papers, and you can drive me over there." So I had the pleasure of driving through the gates, and he was a fellow sleuth. He took me into there, and he was pointing out all the doors, the different doors, and the historical things that they meant. I gave him my card. I said, "If you need a car anymore, sir, I'll be pleased to drive you." I thought how stupid that was afterwards because the election took place, and the conservatives got in, and he was a foreign secretary then. Some couple of weeks after I met his son. And he looked just like his father. He was tall, and slim, and he had glasses on. And I said, "I had the pleasure of driving your mother and father just recently." And I told him this story about his father, and how he let me drive in. He 53 |
