Re: [PyrNet-L] More visitors!!

["Tarascon" <tarascon.trent@xtra.co.nz>]

Yes more visitors  today but I was out shopping. I hate shopping but I do
> this once a week for dog tucker, groceries, banking ( a small gnome of
> Search shuffling her wee bank accounts!!)  Message on answer phone " taxi
> driver, bringing 4 passenger across from the QED to the Martinborough
> Vineyards, like to stop off and show them the Pyrs"!!   Where was the
> answeree of the phone?? Why out trimming the hedge with my chainsaw.
Didn't
> hear the phone, didn't check the answer service.  Where should he have
been
> ?? Why, at work arranging the crews to tie the QE2 up!!  I had only said
to
> him this morning, "Gosh what a lovely day for the QE2 to sail into
> Wellington Harbour, what a shame you wont be there to tie her up, put the
> phone on, calm the Pilot down, find me a millionaire, why are you not at
> work today!!"  Well, this is a Family List so I can't put the reply on
here
> but what he basically said was " Who gives a hoot about the QE2, if I had
to
> tie her up I would have been at work at 5am and you are always whining
about
> the hours I work, there are other crews capable of tying her up, I sailed
on
> the Queen Mary (he's that old??) so the Queens mean nothing to me, we get
> bigger ships in Port than that!!"
> Well, excuse me for trying to make a conversation about his job, may one
> thousand fleas from a Korean Fishing boat infect his armpits so off I
> stomped to do the necessaries!!  I get home 4 hours later ( I thought I
> would punish him by making him think I had spent lots of money) only to
hear
> " I've had visitors from the QE2, they wanted to see the dogs shame you
were
> late!!"  My gut reaction was " You didn't bring them through the house did
> you?"  Answer, "course I did, they just loved all your teddies, frogs, Pyr
> statues, Pyr Pictures etc",  Me, "did you spray some air freshner around?"
> Him, "Why?"  The mere fact that it can smell like the wee of 1000 camels
> Michael after the dogs have been in all night!!  Anyway appears they just
> "loved" the Pyrs, thought they were wonderful etc etc, bred Airedales
> themselves in the UK for years, just a cruisin' around the world at
$608,000
> each for 104 days makes them just like you and me?  I now think probably
> "thankyou God" I wasn't here. they will never know this woman whose
> tablecloth was all scrunched up to stop Hamish hanging of it, whose settee
> covers (although washed) are not back on to stop Hamish taking another 6"
> off the bottom and best of all that woman who keeps threatening daily to
> bath her Pyrs!! Oh God, I forgot to ask him if they had a camera?? Best of
> all, what was the HOST wearing?? A pair of shorts that David Hasselhof
from
> Baywatch probably would have refused to wear incase he was arrested for
> indecent exposure!! My reputation is in tatters!!

Oh Jan! I can see it all! Michael at his very best. He would be just the
person to impress world travellers- NOT.

Best Wishes
Ronda & Martin Trent
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