I have loved garages for longer than I can remember <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is something about them that makes me very happy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was much younger I was great friends <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the daughter of the local garage owner <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It was a Regent Garage with an illuminated sign <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When her father was out we used to mess about with this sign <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until we managed to fuse it into a deep mediocrity <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He never knew of our idiocy and we swore each other to secrecy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many years later I watched a French movie called <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I have to admit that the final scene at the Esso Garage made me cry <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I was with a gaggle of girls and had to fake a Hay Fever attack (in November)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The DVD of the movie is a hidden pleasure and now I can weep quietly without guilt <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I was at university in a moment of brutal and extreme arrogance <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I challenged the girl at the local garage to wear a revealing swimsuit <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under her overalls on a hot day which she did but was later sacked by the owner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She was studying at my college so I asked my wealthy father to sponsor her <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My father being a kind man agreed and she became the sister that I never had <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am now married to a lovely girl and in my study I have a yellow Lego Garage <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which sits under a large print of Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My wife understands my love of garages as she is the sister of my garage sister <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am planning in future years to buy a garage in a remote spot <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And just let time pass me by as it did in Edward Hopper’s Gas <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have print of this work in our first guest room above the bed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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