60) Cars for Sale

Here in Australia one often sees cars parked alongside the road with a sign on them to indicate that they are For Sale. It is a tribute to the honesty of the Australian people. One would not be prepared to do that in Africa, if the car was there when you returned, which is unlikely, it would surely be minus it’s wheels, battery and anything else that could be removed. It might not be risky to leave your car parked for a few days in the hope that you can find the right buyer for it but I don’t think I would like to take the risk of buying one this way, surely there can be no guarantee on what you are getting. The signage on the vehicles varies greatly. Some people go to a great deal of trouble printing it out on the computer and even having a row of little tabs with their telephone number printed on them so that prospective buyers can tear off the tab if they don’t have a pen on them to jot down the number. Then there is the other extreme, signs that are made of an old scrap of cardboard, with the lettering starting large on the left hand side and getting narrower and narrower as it goes right and the writer realises that there is not going to be enough room to fit it all in. I really don’t like to see the abbreviation “4 Sale” I suppose I am old fashioned but I think it is just so lazy and sloppy. There are other people who think the same way as I do I’m sure as the other day I saw a little old car parked alongside the road and the seller obviously wanted to do things properly. He had made quite a good sign, hand done but with care and had spaced his letters well so that he did not have to squash them all in together at the end. Just one thing spoiled it; the sign read FOUR SALE.