I'm sure the above will
get lost in translation – but here goes an explanation.
When I came “Up To
Dublin” from “The Bogs” I was a raw inexperienced young lad –
but I had ambitions.
One of these centred
around the more experienced girl, who was secretary to the Big Boss.
During training and set up
of my employee record, and getting a listing of my duties, and being
introduced, she was my handler.
Apparently my performance
at the oral interview was even at that early stage of my short career
in The Civil Service gaining me some notoriety.
Down home I was appearing
in an amateur production of Walter Macken's Home Is The Hero,
playing the part of Manchester Monaghan, and came to the interview in
character – explaining “I don't normally look as scruffy as this
but I'm playing a Teddy-boy in a play.”
That rainy day in Dublin,
three men sat in a hot stuffy room asking questions of young nervous
candidates, until late in the afternoon, when I arrived on the scene.
We laughed, and joked
about my appearance and the play and the part, and I gave a short
performance and somewhere along the way these men decided – we like
this youngster – and we will employ him.
So weeks later there I am
dreaming of a date with Mary, full of the joys of spring, hoping I had a
reputation as a ladies man: so I asked her out.
“Mary, what night are
you free? The reply put me firmly back in my box. “I'm not free any
night! But most nights I'm reasonable.”
So for Monday and Tuesday
– the kindle edition of my book is Free and Reasonable.
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