Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

Car spotting

A social leper tells you of his miserable existence

issue 24 January 2004

Me and the boy are regulars at the weekly car auction near us. We never bid for anything. We just like to go and sit and watch the cars coming and going and seeing what they fetch. We don’t even comment on an excessively high or low price. We talk only about the soup.

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