In South Carolina, if you have a prosthetic eye, you can get a Driving Licence without having an eye exam.
Proof then, that you can drive half blind in SC.
Read Chapter 4 - 'The Driving Licence' for more details.
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"Loved it! The author's descriptions paint such a picture, it's as though you are with him every step of the way."

(Sometimes the simplest reviews are the best.)
Available on Amazon and at all good bookshops.
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"I loved it. Full of humour and insight. The author's style makes you feel you're right there with him."

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If trump read this book, he'd ban it. What do you think?

The Driving Test...
"The first sign pictured a man with a flag in his hand. Hmm... “Beware, Parade ahead?” I hazarded.
"No"
Apparently he's the American equivalent of a warning that road works were taking place ahead. Things were going well."
(p34)
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I could not help but feel a little disappointed when he chose to get off on the embankment side of the train. In need of some righteous humour, I so badly wanted him to start a class action with the freight train now thundering past us on the other side." (3/3) #booksky #author #america #memoir

(In NYC)
I pointed to one of the bagels...
“What’s a French Toasted?” I begged.
The gaze turned into a broad smile.
“Oh my God, you’re English! What you doing here,
hun?”
“Just moved here”, I replied. And with that, I got the
full lowdown on what a French toasted bagel was."
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Today's excerpt from 'ONLY IN AMERICA'
"Sighing deeply, I turned to look at what JFK’s deportation
lounge had done to my passport. There, next to the original ‘Visa Approved' stamp, was another 'Visa Approved' stamp.
I may be the only person in America to have been immigrated twice."
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Today's snippet from 'ONLY IN AMERICA'...

"With the key to my room in hand, I boarded the elevator. As it rose to heights, I didn't know it could; I just wished my brain hadn't projected a flashback of watching that film, 'Towering Inferno'." (p14)
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'ONLY IN AMERICA'.
"Wait right there, mister", she commanded.
I moved purposefully to the spot she pointed to. Standing anywhere else felt like I might receive the severest rebuke for not doing as I was told. Within seconds, a wave of her white gloves had brought a yellow cab screeching to a halt."

"Purposefully strutting up and down behind them, was a female officer, hands clasped behind her back, hair tied in a tight bun, her face cast in stone, expressionless. She had all the appearance of someone who could sentence you to death with a slight twitch of her head." (p5) #booksky #writers

"Above all, (America) is a land where the truth is for sale,
convicted reality TV stars become presidents, and where you can buy a gun faster than you can order a pizza."
(Part) Introduction to 'ONLY IN AMERICA' - the life of a Englishman in the USA 2016-2024.
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"As we left the studio, I took one last look at the entrance to the old Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios and, suppressing an urge to cross the road and ask if they needed a new star, climbed back into the Jeep to be whisked from the scene as the credits rolled." (p121) #booksky
ONLY IN AMERICA (Out now)

"Los Angeles is the City of Dreams, they say... and it is a city hooked on fame, a drug provided by an industry that processes people, in a way few can resist."(p113) ONLY IN AMERICA (Out now). #booksky #bookreviews #writing