Dave wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Garage around here with 'Keep Cleer' painted on the doors.
That reminds me of my early apprenticeship days.
I was designated to learn/work in an offshoot of the tool room in a
press shop. They had a cupboard there and on the front were the words
Kee
Pout
LOL
That stirred a memory of when I was about 10 years old - in nineteen hundred
& frozen to death.
A sikh family moved into a house a few street away, a rare thing in those
days. The word "gnikrapon" was painted on the wooden garage doors shortly
afterwards.
Me & my mates assumed that this was some mysterious Indian word & we all
wondered what on earth it meant. It took us months to realise he had tried
to write "noparking" in mirror writing & not got it right.
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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk