Bathe responds

4:55pm Friday 9th November 2001

So C Kinaird did not like my remarks about the female drivers of 4x4 cars who seem to think that particular type of car entitles them to barrel down the centre of the public highway with a total disregard for all other road users, I can only assume she has taken umbrage who drives one of these types of vehicles and is thus a culprit.

As to my driving ability, I have held a licence for sixty years and only had three accidents, twice whilst stationary in traffic hold ups female drivers have driven onto the back of my vehicle, and the third one, whilst driving round the rear side of me before I had cleared the round about.

Busy talking to her passenger.

As to extracting the urine of my war record. Like a lot of my generation I volunteered at the outbreak of war, in fact, five of us pre war chums did so, only two of us survived, myself of six years service, two was spent in the Western Desert, riding a motor cycle around delivering the bombing orders to our Wings and squadrons, followed by another two in Italy as an MT Fitter in charge of a beacon site, helping our lads that survived ops' to find their way back to base.

On being demobed I received £175, gratuity and a couple of years after the war I received five Gongs for services rendered, the Desert one I also was awarded a Silver Clasp for services in support of the 8th army.

She might also like to know that in recent years I have become partly disabled through injuries I received whilst doing this delightful pastime in the desert. I started to receive a small pension for this some three years ago.

The council and the social security have since assess it against me when arriving at my council tax and health charges, so pray to be forgiven for your snide remarks when next you go god bothering at your place of wor-ship.

Mick Bathe

Taylor Close

Orpington

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