My cousin Mary is a motor mechanic. She works in a busy garage in the middle of the town, about five minutes’ walk from home. She likes everything about the job, except for the fact that she can never seem to get completely clean at the end of the day. All the other mechanics, except for the supervisor, are men. She gets on with everyone very well, although she sometimes has trouble with customers who think that, being a woman, she cannot be a good mechanic. As it happens, she is considered by most of her workmates to be the best mechanic in the garage. Her husband Jim is the accountant and works at the company head office, which is just outside town.