Re: What's Going on Around here?

Alan wrote:

> Mom wrote:


> > "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

> Hi Mom,

> Of course not. I've been busy and I improved my web-site with loads of
> stuff. Sorry I haven't had a chance to pop in.

> See you in August. Yaknow it was only when I linked in Elmo's Web-site
> that I realised what pretty blue eyes you have :-)

> Alan

> http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/index.html


Oh hell Mom, don't say I scared you away?

Hey *never* *fear* a real friend is flying in from Hong Kong this weekend
and I am going to be too busy to meet up with you. Sorry.

Alan

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/mk.html

http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/identity.html

http://lordcerneabbas.blogspot.com/

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