Unexpected Good FortuneTravelling through Seattle a good 15 years ago, I remembered an old friend I used to blow up Action Men with. We were bored, nothing to lose , so I looked him up in the phonebook. He was the only one of that name in there. "Come and stay," goes he.
Me and my mates were living in a car at that point so a bed was a novelty. After searching for a while, we rock up to a very posh mansion on Puget Sound with its own Helipad. "Come flying," goes he.
Has your luck held out recently?
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chthonic, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 18:43)
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Not me but my grandadIn 1942 my grandad was sitting on a train in India heading east to fight the Japanese in the jungles of Burma. His life expectancy wasn't very long.
Then an officer walked past him and said 'Chopper, I'm setting up a mountain warfare school and we need people like you. Get off this train at the next stop, and come and work for me'.
My grandad had gone to boarding school in Swtzerland and not being very academic had spent most of his time skiing and climbing mountains. He had just bumped into one of his old school chums.
So he spent the rest of the war teaching special forces how not to fall off mountains and skis. And is still alive today at a very grand old age.
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