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chrisinhouston · 08-16-2002, 10:27 AM

Looking at her feet on that nice carpet reminds me of my trip to the UK last January. My cousin who is in a pretty good position in Parliament arranged for us to have a tour of the the facilities. We sat in the gallery at Prime Minister's Questions, visited the House of Lords and were taken to the Queen's robing chamber. When we got to the entry area my cousin's secretary who was giving us the tour asked the man in charge if we could cross over the "blue carpet" where the Royal's enter the building to see the chamber.

He looked at us and remarked "Alright, but cross the carpet very quickly". We sure didn't want to get any of our touristy dirt on the carpet so we just about ran over it.

08-16-2002, 10:27 AM	#3
chrisinhouston Professor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Houston TX Posts: 1,857	Looking at her feet on that nice carpet reminds me of my trip to the UK last January. My cousin who is in a pretty good position in Parliament arranged for us to have a tour of the the facilities. We sat in the gallery at Prime Minister's Questions, visited the House of Lords and were taken to the Queen's robing chamber. When we got to the entry area my cousin's secretary who was giving us the tour asked the man in charge if we could cross over the "blue carpet" where the Royal's enter the building to see the chamber. He looked at us and remarked "Alright, but cross the carpet very quickly". We sure didn't want to get any of our touristy dirt on the carpet so we just about ran over it.