Kind even to French lorry drivers
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I SELDOM RESPOND to anonymous letters but I make an exception of one from a Redditch reader. He writes in praise of John Hunt, who drives an ambulance for the handicapped for Redditch Voluntary Services Ecumenical Centre and whose kindness is legendary. The writer says John would slay him if he knew of the letter.
The ambulance driver's generosity extends even to French lorry drivers despite their treatment of British drivers diming the great road haulage blockade, during demonstrations over meat imports and in a savage dispute between French and Spanish fishermen — the ultimate, surely, in secondary picketing.
When a French driver stopped and asked the way to a destination beyond Redditch, John said it was too complicated to describe and led him two miles along a tortuous route which the lorry driver admitted he could never have found. I would like to think I would have been as charitable.