JO Haywood's article "Exhausting day in parallel world" (May 17) made me so angry.

How dare she call a hard working car mechanic "a grubby little oik" with oil-stained hands?

Who did she think fitted her exhaust, a little man in a suit with perfectly manicured nails?

Oil-stained hands are a sign of hard graft, something about which Jo obviously knows nothing.

Just think before you write your article next time Jo, you could be hurting someone's feelings by calling them a "grubby little oik" and could lose quite a few readers of your column, myself included!

Sarah E Castle,

Brockfield Park Drive,

Huntington, York.

Updated: 11:16 Thursday, May 27, 2004