If we're punctual, it's because we inherited that from Dad. Mum had many wonderful attributes, but punctuality was, alas, entirely absent. The year the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh came to Calcutta, Dad had two (highly sought-after) tickets to the special service at St Paul's Cathedral. On this special day, he had Mum organised like never before. Not only was he going to get his wife to the Cathedral on time; he was going to get her there early.
When they got into the car, Dad asked Mum if she had the tickets in her handbag. Mum, possibly miffed at having to hurry in this most unladylike fashion, replied in high dudgeon, asking if he honestly thought she could be so irresponsible as to forget them. Dad held his counsel, drove off - and they arrived with an hour to spare.
At the beautiful, ancient door of the Cathedral, they were asked for their tickets. Mum opened her handbag. Oh, horror. No tickets!
To cut a long story short, Dad drove all the way home, picked up the tickets and returned to the Cathedral - still with several minutes to spare.
6 comments:
heh!
i can soooooo relate..lol...poor mum!
Hi Karoline,
Thanks for dropping by and taking the trouble to leave a comment.
I think lots of people could probably relate to that story!
Cheers
David
Thats right.... that could very easily be my parents. In fact that could very easily be Reem and I. Let her not find out though... Siddharth
Er, I don't think your Mum would have been late for a church service. I remember helping her with the vestments and other preparations for the altar at the little Anglican church in Garden Reach, from time to time, and she was never late!
I also remember that visit of the Queen and Prince Philip - I was in a boarding school in Calcutta and St. Paul's was the church the Protestant boarders were taken to on Sundays. Interestingly, friends of mine, Irish sisters whose father was an expatriot at the local jute mills, got to hold the pen and guest book, respectively, for the royal couple. We were seniors and 'drew' for this privilege. The British sisters both drew winningly! The rest of us were in the aisle row, inches from the procession, terribly exciting!
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