"Is this batch of students worse than usual?"
"You mean, for the senior trip? I guess about the same as usual. Why?"
"Well, I haven't been able to get them to refer to me as their 'chaperone.'"
"I think I see ." Her eyes turned hard as she stood. "Kids, let me make this perfectly clear. Anyone who refers to one of the chaperones as their #escort is going to be confined to the bus while everyone else gets to go to the top of the empire state building."
"Come, my brave siblings! Today we ascend, joyfully, in the spirit of adventure, into the scent-heavy sky, to follow whim and weather, until such time as we find the perfect hollow, warm and welcoming, in which to establish a new propolis metropolis, a new fastness from which to seek out nectars hitherto untasted!"
Her speech concluded, the queen took wing with a multitude of her sisters (and a handful of her brothers) in #escort.
After the 1965 #Transit, the next 'European' #Ford was the 1968 #Escort. This was produced at plants in Halewood, UK (now makes Land Rovers), Genk, Belgium (closed 2014) and Saarlouis, Germany (threatened by electrification). In Germany the Mk1 was nicknamed the #Hundeknochen (dog bone) after the shape of the grille. I believe the Mk1 was basically a British design but the 1975 reskin that created the Mk2 was led by the German side. Pic: #GreatBritishCarJourney #WeirdCarMastodon #davidsdailycar
