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500 Words - Greasy Dave lived up to his name...

Greasy Dave lived up to his name... Now you may be forgiven for thinking that he was probably a mechanic, or he worked in a cafĂ© or a fish and chip shop or some such; but it was actually a far more palatable reason- he was a huge fan of the film Grease. In fact, he claimed to have watched it over 500 times. Now this was a claim that was never seriously challenged; and why should it be. Why would you make something like that up? What possible advantage could you hope to get from such a claim? Unless of course you were angling to meet John Travolta or Olivia Newton John, then, maybe, just maybe, the claim may hold some sway. But, for an office worker in a small rural town, watching Grease on average once every 3 weeks was eccentric at the very worst. Not that a little eccentricity is in anyway a bad thing. And especially in Dave’s case. It was fine. Yes, of course he was ‘a little different’ than most, but he was generally considered to be a nice guy. And okay, so he may