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Danger is my middle name
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It is all very well for John Silbermann, the Road Haulage Association's chairman, to take the mickey out of business consultants, but some of these boys live dangerously. Take, for example, the case of Austin Gillenders and Richard Iles, of TMS, a United Transport Group company, who were called in to advise Bangkok Mass Transit Authority on the operation of 5000 buses.
This involved learning Thai in a hurry. Richard did so well in four months flat that he was not only able to make a highly professional presentation to a management seminar but, as an ancore, got himself married to a Thai girl.
He and Austin, both 6ft 6in, here also asked to play football 'or the BMTA head office XI and paraded in immaculate regula:ion kit on a pitch almost awash 3fter torrential rain. This could, pf course, have been any English football ground in winter Dut the opposing side turned out ro be 25 girls. Despite their size Dur intrepid heroes are reported ro have spent most of the time 3n their backs.
Mrs Silbermann has a sparking sense of fun but would it !etain its glint if she heard that John, in pursuit of advisory luties, had spent the afternoon 'rider a heap of girls?
Consultants move in myserious ways, their wonders to )erform. They are not to be nockal.
Incidentally the young Thaiiresses won 2-1.