[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: slugs

[Amanda Lewanski]

catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Just to confirm - yes, it was alive - I felt it move on my tongue. It
> was only a baby (ie. not one of those huge things I find in my
> garden), but I don't think that makes any difference.
>
> The manager was very grateful - I called him over (discreetly) pointed
> out the slug and told him what happened.  He thanked me for not
> causing a big fuss - free meal, and shopping vouchers followed. The
> only people who realised were the people next to us.  But - all
> Londoners beware - it happened in Selfridges.

Catherine, I already thought you were wonderful for spelling your name
correctly and for sharing my excellent taste in older men (Jan is 19
years my senior). But now you have my unbelieving admiration--I have
dealt with many awful things--children sick all over me; cats dropping
half-dead Buicks on me, still crawling, as a thoughtful night-time
snack; diapers so awful they were worse than the rhino enclosure at the
Zoo; even weevils in a Snickers bar. But I don't believe there is any
chance at all that I would not have thrown up on the table in this
circumstance. You are a truly amazing person.

--Amanda, awed (I even almost threw up at the Episode Of A Thousand
Ticks [another story]--maybe I just have a weak stomach?)


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