So............
On my way back to my hotel after an afternoon of moderate drinking, I regognise a guy walking up ahead of me. So I confront him in my usual northern way by asking him first if he works offshore and then upon him telling me that he's a bus mechanic, I then narrow it down to the last minute meet on the 10th at Danestone that I was randomly at last week. It turns out that he doesn't own a Jap car, but a modified Range Rover, and he was just there to see the cars.
Now as much as this sounds like a pretty normal story it most certainly isn't....as Kieran is a 17 year old lad with autism, and his car profile up til now would destroy most people's in their lifetimes.
In the hour and a half that I stood speaking to him, Kieran described modestly how he had dropped a v8 into an Astra VXR, owned an E92 M3 and was currently prepping his '78 5.0 Mustang (which his dad had left him in his will) for a trip down to Newcastle. Now normally I would call bullshizit on all of this but the way this lad unemotionally went about telling me just seemed to flick all of the right switches. Plus when a bus pulled up at the junction and he said, "that's my bus, it's just had a new engine." I said "what do you mean?" And he proceeded to inform me that he'd used 4000 shares to buy the bus and that every penny it earned was his.
I believe that there is only a handful of times in your life where you meet somebody like this in your life and to be fair, I will probably talk about Kieran for the rest of my life.