recently I met her during a routine security check....
The respectable representative of the great British institution...W.I or Women´s Institute.
Tweeded, brown shod, (sensible), small tidy and neat handbag, be-hatted, and well equipped with a seniority brooch affixed as per general rule whatever on the right hand lapel....
"you would like me to do what" ..she exclaimed..drawing my attention.
I assumed that she had been asked to show her collection of private, creams and soaps and such like to a Gulag officer, to determine it passing into a one liter plastic bag.
Or maybe to raise her arms to height deemed both unpractical and un-ladylike for a flagship of her dignity!
Or worse still to place a non-existent Laptop in a tray...but no...
Attlia, demanded that she should remove her shoes!.....
the resounding exclamation of "don´t be silly young man" reverberated through the security area, followed by a resolutely determined madam sailing forth !....
We, mere mortals...followed meekly. shoeless, beltless and very much in awe....
The respectable representative of the great British institution...W.I or Women´s Institute.
Tweeded, brown shod, (sensible), small tidy and neat handbag, be-hatted, and well equipped with a seniority brooch affixed as per general rule whatever on the right hand lapel....
"you would like me to do what" ..she exclaimed..drawing my attention.
I assumed that she had been asked to show her collection of private, creams and soaps and such like to a Gulag officer, to determine it passing into a one liter plastic bag.
Or maybe to raise her arms to height deemed both unpractical and un-ladylike for a flagship of her dignity!
Or worse still to place a non-existent Laptop in a tray...but no...
Attlia, demanded that she should remove her shoes!.....
the resounding exclamation of "don´t be silly young man" reverberated through the security area, followed by a resolutely determined madam sailing forth !....
We, mere mortals...followed meekly. shoeless, beltless and very much in awe....
So Miss Marple is alive after all...
ReplyDeleteHave an enjoyable Christmas and give my regards to all. Maybe next year you will let me do the New Year firework display again...
Good story! No doubt there are new things that society mandates that we should accept. Some things...as we were admonished by the old drug commercial...just say NO!
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