by expat » Sun Apr 05, 2015 1:36 am
Many moons ago when I wore a blue suit for the Queen, I was fortunate enough to go to Las Vegas a couple of times. We got given a ridiculous amount of money for food per day (in a lump sum once a week). I would generally eat in a casino. For entertainment, I would change $20 into Dimes and Quarters and play the slots. I was told to move to another machine if it did not drop a few coins with the first few tries. Some evenings I was back in my room after an hour, some evenings I would be back after three or four hours. I got to drink for free and occasionally came home with a plastic pot full of silver coins. One evening I won $80. However, I kept to my $20 and made sure by only having that in my wallet.
Many years later when my wife an I toured the U/S for six weeks, I took her back to Vegas and we did the same thing again, it still worked and my wife was the one to have to pot of silver at the end of the evening. One last thing about Vegas, three days with my wife, sights and lights was far better than three weeks a shot for the Queen even if she was paying. You can get tired of the place quite quickly I find.
"A bit of a pickle" - British translation: A catastrophically bad situation with potentially fatal consequences.
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People Eating Tasty Animals.
B1 (Cat C) licenced engineer, Boeing 737NG 600/700/800/900 Airbus A318/19/20/21 and Dash8 Q-400
1. Captain, if the problem is not entered into the technical logbook.........then the aircraft does not have a problem.
2. And, if you have time to write the fault on a napkin and attach to it to the yoke.........you have time to write it in the tech log....see point 1.
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