[Northkeep] Amusing Story
Cheryl
azuredecodragon at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 3 07:52:59 PDT 2011
/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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