11: Back in The Trade

Back in The Trade

The kids were growing up.

The work was relentless and hard. Anyone that dreams of owning a little country pub should have a month running one on their own. Then decide.

The hours just kill you.

So, we decided that one day when we got an offer on the hotel that maybe we should accept it and one day we did.

We moved back to Melbourne.

Plan (A) was to go overseas, do a bit of a tour of Europe or maybe a cruise on a ship and then I’d come back and look for a business opportunity or a good job.

We rented a Villa Unit in Nunawading and booked the kids into the local state school while we decided what we were going to do with the rest of our lives.

One morning, I said to my wife Marian,

“I think I'll go up to the Volvo dealerships and get the car serviced. I'll see you in a few hours”

“yeah OK” she said “see you later”

White Horse Motors were just around the corner from our flat, and if it was a long service I could walk home from there quite easily.

Then after booking it in with the service people, Noel Cheney sees me and sits me down makes me a cup of coffee.

I was going to be a few hours at the car yard and so we just filled in the time chit chatting about the pub and funny things that happened there.

A phone call comes through, and Noel gets tied up.

“I'm sorry Gordon, I’ll have to catch you later” and off he wandered.

One of the other salesman Dick Samson was there selling used cars and he came over and he was talking away about this and that and the other.

A new car salesman called Ron Kantor, a lovely guy, came over and spoke to me for a while and he sort of got tied up too.

I was being handed from one salesperson to the next and it was just like the old days. 

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