Just remembered this bloke Pete
My old school mate Ron, this bloke Pete and I used to knock around together a bit way back in school days. Pete was your typical sandy headed Aussie kid from a big country town. School days he used to tell stories that might just have been true. "My Dad's car will do 110 miles per hour." Well his Dad was a motor mechanic so it might have been true. "We watched TV from city X last night." Again, his Dad was a radio ham and it might just have been true.

Pete went off and joined the air force as a signalman - he already knew a bit about radio from his Dad. When he got out of the air force the slightly embroidered stories were getting taller. He'd been an officer, not "other ranks" and was thinking about a promotion to Wing Commander but decided to opt out into private industry. When last seen he was a radio technician working for an instrument supplier.

Yes, he owned a near-new Lotus but that was down in Melbourne and he was driving a "company car" here in Sydney. The "company car" was a near clapped out Ford and must have been 12 years old.

But the capper came from his girlfriend. She phoned Mrs. Ron to say that she and Pete were short of money. Could Ron and Mrs. Ron see their way into repaying the $25,000 that Pete had lent them to build their house? Ron admitted borrowing $25 one weekend and paying it back a few days later. That was the last time Ron and Pete spoke.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Tue 4 Dec 2007, 11:41, Reply)