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There is a saying that first impressions are generally correct, and I would say that **almost** throughout my entire life, I have found this to be true apart from one notable exception of a good friend and neighbor with whom my first **meeting** was decidedly unfriendly.

At the time of our first meeting, I was living in a **deprived** area of London, not far from the exit of a dual carriageway. This meant that although it was a **residential** street, even with the **best** will in the world, drivers would often travel dangerously fast within inches of my front door. This used to really annoy me, and I have to admit I did often go a bit **overboard** in expressing my anger, even though (or perhaps because) I knew I didn't stand a **reasonable** chance of being taken notice of or even noticed at all. So when one day, I shouted my usual string of swear words at a rapidly passing car and it immediately screamed to a halt, my first reaction was an enormous sense of **achievement**. But then the driver of the car opened his window and shouted a stream of swear words back at me.

So the next morning, I was more than a little surprised to find an apology note from the same motorist in my mailbox explaining that in an attempt to **further** his career as an up-and-coming IT **consultant**, he had been driving too fast the previous evening and inviting me to have dinner with him and his wife.

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I hope this helps!