[Northkeep] Amusing Story

[Cheryl]

/giggle

Tamberlin 

On Oct 2, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Hugh & Belinda Niewoehner <BurgBorrendohl at valornet.com> wrote:

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> Dearest Gentles...
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>         I pray your indulgence,  for the following story is not strictly related to the SCA,  but does pertain to activities surrounding historical research pursuent to SCA interests.  And, mayhaps you will
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> find it amusing...   I have several other such stories,  and if my
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> dear readers do find some amusement in this story,  then I would be pleased to present them.
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>         Yours in Service,
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>         Thomas Ignatius Perigrinus
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>         Minister of Arts and Sciences
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>         College of St Felix (choose your favorite,  there are 17 St.
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> Felixs)
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> The Lump
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>         While I was working in Sweden,  I had many chances to visit London.
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> Through a strange set of circumstances, while performing historical research I was able to be of service to the Abbot of Westminster Abbey.
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> As a reward,  I was presented with a weather worn carved capital from the Chapel of Henry VI'th which was being replaced with a new one.  (The service had pertained to this restoration work)  Although weatherworn and a bit crumbly,  it is delicately carved, and so I worked hard to protect it.
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> Since it weighs 50+ pounds, this was not easy.
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>         Fortunately,  I had traveled from Sweden to England with my good
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> Lady, her Mother, and her sister...   Even though the latter two of
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> our party
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> were planning to travel onwards, rather than return to Sweden,  it had been
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> cheapest to buy everyone round trip tickets...   So the fact that I
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> had a 50+
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> pound chunk of Westminster Abbey didn't seem like it would present a problem...
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> I had a pair of spare return trip tickets.  It could fly as a passanger!!!!
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>         Check in was fun...    "I'd like to check in three to
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> Sweden..."
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> presenting the tickets...   "Yes sir...   would you put your carry on
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> bag on the scale???"   "No,  that's one of the passangers".   "Yes, sir,
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> would you put _their_ bag on the scale."   "No,  I didn't make myself
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> clear.
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> That is not a bag belonging to a passanger... that bag is the passanger."
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> "Excuse me sir...   did you say the BAG is the PASSANGER?"   "Yes,  and
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> it would like a window seat."    At this point they decided I was
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> definately
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> daft,  and I spent th next ten minutes talking to various managers...
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> Finally that was cleared up, and the bag got it's window seat.
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>         Arriving at the security gate,  I placed my bag firmly (ka-
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> thunk)
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> on the x-ray machine...  and of course no x-rays penetrated the rock...
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> So they asked me;  "What do you have in there, a rock?" "Why yes, I do".
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> "Well sir, could you be so kind as to open it?" "But of course..."
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> Well, they were very amused, but seeing as how I had the foresight to obtain a legal possesion and export document, they finally let it through.
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>         I thought I had it made,  but the people at the boarding gate noticed that I was lugging this bag as if it contained somewhat over the
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> 14 pounds weight allowance for carry on luggage.  Also, I was treating it gingerly since it is a irreplaceable thing,  and I didn't want to damage it...  "Excuse me sir, but if that bag weighs more than 14
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> pounds you will have to check it..."   "No,  thats okay,  it isn't a
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> bag,
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> it's a passanger with it's own ticket... right here."  With that, I showed the ticket. "Yes sir, where is the person who's ticket this is?" "No, let me make it clear, this bag is the passanger, it is going to sit in a seat, next to the window." "Yes, sir, could you kindly
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> step into the security office with us?..."     Sigh...
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>         Finally we board the airplane...  I thought we had it made...
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> But alas,  fate had a bit more planned for me.  Shortly after the plane buttoned up,  the stewardess came around and asked me if I could move the bag off of the seat (It was firmly seat belted in place), because a passanger wanted to move to the window (I should have realized that might cause problems). "No,  I am afraid I won't move the bag,  and
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> besides,  I have paid for that seat...."   "Well yes sir,  if that is
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> your reserved seat,  than could you sit in it and give the other gentleman the seat you are sitting in?"  "I'm afraid I have not made it clear...
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> I have paid for a ticket for the bag...  it is a passanger.  That is it's reserved seat....  I have a ticket, I am a passanger, and this is my reserved seat.  We are both passangers, with tickets, and reserved seats...  (and trying to suprress a grin)  And we would both like the chicken entree."  ....  eventually I was able to convince the co-pilot that the bag was a bona-fide passanger with a ticket,  that it didn't constitute a threat to the welfare of the airplane,  and that it did have a right to both the window seat and the chicken entree...
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