Tonight I passed our local Chinese restaurant, 5 minutes from my house on foot, and very nice too - Lam's Kitchen it is called. Though I've never eaten in, I have had the odd carryout. Tonight there were 12 cars in their carpark, all makes and models, old and new, big and small, all price ranges - but all silver! How strange. Is silver the most common car colour (I once read it was red)? Or do only silver car owners eat Chinese? Maybe the reason I have only ever had carryout is because my car is dark blue?
Oh and Marcel asked for chicken chow mein for dinner - does this mean he'll want me to buy him a silver car when he turns 17?!
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I once read too that red is the most popular colour, and I think it might be true in Denmark. I've often wondered why there are so few of them in Scotland – silver definitely seems more popular here. So I guess it depends on how Scottish Marcel will feel at age 17. ;-)
Red is definitely popular down south - I remember flying into Heathrow once from somewhere in Italy and the Italian girl sitting beside me (who had asked me to autograph her Collins dictionary ;-)) kept muttering over and over as we landed - wow so many little red cars!
Are you often asked to autograph dictionaries? How did she recognise you as a famous lexicographer? :-) Anyway, does the number of red cars in Denmark mean that Denmark is mentally further south than Scotland? Or are the red cars of England a relict of the vikings and the Danelaw?
She looked sth up in her dictionary when we were talking and later she asked what I did for a living so I said - actually I wrote the dictionary you were just using, she didn't believe me so I showed her my passport and since it matched the name she asked for an autograph! Yes, amazingly, I do often get asked but 95% of the time by school kids who know me and want me to sign an Easy Learning or a First Time French! (very silly - I know how Madonna must feel ;-) )
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