EMBARRASSING YOUR CHILD IS ONLY NATURAL
If you saw an old Renault 12 on the road these days you’d regard it as a classic car, but back in the late 1980s it was what you might call a bog standard, unattractive and unremarkable family vehicle. We had one for a while, nicknamed The White Elephant, and each morning my sister would request to be let out of the car some distance from her secondary school lest she be seen by her peers and suffer untold mortification. What fun times my Dad must have had, ferrying us around