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DRIVING INSTRUCTOR WANTED

must be proficient with the standard ground cars of this world
hover car proficiency preferred but not necessary
familiarity with early 20th century models preferred
instructor age 25+ preferred

Student comes from the early 1920s and drives a Crossley. Payment will be done per lesson. Details to be negotiated.

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Not trying to hide anything. I'm just a guy who wants to teach you to drive modern cars.

[Identity doesn't mean much in this world, he thinks. He's perfectly fine to share his past, but it's a long ass past to share and one that tends to raise more questions than it answers. Life is hard for a biblical immortal cannibal, kthx.]

Then you won't mind giving me a proper name, yeah? Mine's no secret - Alfie Solomons. Alfred, if you like.

Hi Alfie. I'm Jack.

Stubborn one, aren't you.

Probably. Maybe we can talk more when we meet.

[Or maybe not, seeing as Jack prefers talking in single words when he can.]

You're certainly confident that we will.

Well. Either we do or we don't. I'm not going to lose sleep over it.

Smart man, 'Jack'.

It's just Jack, you don't need quotations.

You've admitted it's an alias.

It's something I've had for longer than you've been alive. Sometimes an alias just stops being an alias and becomes a name.

Just how old are you, then?

50. or maybe older. Guess you'll have to find out.

Are you imagining I'm as young as all the kids running around here?

I'm imagining you're younger than I am. [Because literally everyone is.]

How old are you?

Make a guess.

30s? 40s? [If only because that's the age range of most that Jack ends up talking to.]

Good job. It's 43.

Then my point still stands. It's been my name for at least that.

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