Ms B Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ok, nothing to do with trains. A few years back I > had a bad bug all weekend and, like the good > employee I was, by Sunday night, as I was able to > stand up again, thought that I should go to work > as normal. I was living and working in Amsterdam > at the time, so got up at 4.30am on Monday, first > flight to Paris for intense Monday morning meeting > with PR agency; after lunch, at which I was unable > to eat anything, held together entirely by > caffeine and neurofen I crossed Paris, got the TGV > to Le Mans, then 45-minute taxi to the company's > R&D centre, checked in to hotel and, by now in a > total haze and rather late, ran for dinner > meeting. Luckily, as I walked in to the restaurant > the guy I was meeting stood up and said hi, asked > me how things were going and we got chatting. > > It was only half way through the main course I > realised I was having dinner with the wrong > person. And I didn't even know who he was. I still > don't. OK LETS ALL AGREE NOT TO PUT LESS THAN DELICATE QUESTIONS TO MS B AS TO WHAT MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE TRANSPIRED BETWEEN HERSELF AND SAID GENTLEMAN. PLEASE MOVE ALONG NOW. Although if you have a look of Audrey Hepburn about you, and he had a Cary Grantishness to his jib, it might make for an enthralling anecdote.