slugs

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> catherine at c... 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?)


Wow!  Thanks Amanda!  I was just about to add my apologies to Amy's 
for the gross subject matter as well!

Catherine