Re: What's Going on Around here?
- From: "Mom" <mom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 21:14:12 -0400
"Alan" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:memo.20050601220348.840A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <WYCdndj7xsAwkAPfRVn-uQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, mom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> (Mom)
> wrote:
>
>>
>> >> >> > I haven't been lurking Alan, I've been busy. Happy Tuesday.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Mom
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Oh, and I booked my flight and will be laying over at Heathrow for
>> >> >> 3
>> >> >> hours
>> >> >> before landing in Frankfurt.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Mom
>> >> >
>> >> > Do I need to wear that pretty black uniform or will a jean jacket
>> >> > and
>> >> > jeans do?
>> >> > I know how you like uniforms. LOL
>> >> >
>> >> > Alan
>> >>
>> >> Jean jacket and jeans will be fine. The only problem is.......it's
>> >> pretty
>> >> early in the morning.
>> >>
>> >> Mom
>> >
>> > Not a 3am clandestine meeting, Mom? It makes things a lot easier for
>> > traffic and
>> > parking though :-)
>> >
>> > Alan
>>
>> No, I will be there from 6:20 a.m. to 9:05 a.m. It really doesn't give me
>> a
>> lot of time as I will want to be at the gate by 8:15. How big is
>> Heathrow?
>>
>> Mom
>
> It's maybe a half hour drive right round the perimeter fence, but longer
> in
> heavy traffic, and there are four terminals, although terminal four is
> freight
> only, and do you have to go from one to the other? Here's a map:
>
> http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=507500&y=175500&z=1&sv=507500,175500&st=
> 4&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=507500&ay=175500
>
> I guess that makes it approximately four square miles, which would make it
> 16
> miles round the perimeter fence, which at 30 mph (the current speed limit)
> is
> about an half hour drive. But terminals one two and three are all joined
> together with those moving footways, like flattened out escalators, and
> near the
> multi-story car park, and the food places are all inside the building, and
> somehow the only time I go to the passenger terminals is to meet somebody
> with
> an American accent :-)
>
> And getting there at 6.20 is easy, it's getting out again around 8.15 that
> becomes a problem, but then I could go up to the roof of the multi-story
> car and
> wave as you took off and you couldn't miss seeing my pretty red car with
> me
> stood waving next to it, and then I would have no traffic problems at all,
> after 9.30.
>
> And I could even take pictures of your plane taking off and put them on my
> blue
> sky page, so everybody back home would know that you had arrived and taken
> off
> again safely, and you would be able to download them too. I have to reduce
> them
> to 200Kbs to put them on the web-site, which reduces the quality but they
> still
> look OK to the people who looked at them.
>
> And it's a good job that Paul has me in a kill-file, or he would come and
> give
> me that punch on the nose he promised :-) But he wouldn't cos at Heathrow,
> there
> are security cameras everywhere, which also means you know you'll be safe
> meeting me there. How come he isn't coming to meet you anyway, or has he
> already
> offered in ash-sea?
>
> Alan
Alan,
Did our meeting scare you so much you have decided to leave the group?
Mom
.
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