The pedant in the kitchen 137Only by not living in the Calgary area! While we were having dinner in Soho, the Calgary area was deluged by several days of heavy rain. Several communities to the south were seriously flooded. They...
Oh dear! As a very young student accountant (articled clerks in those far-off days), I was taken on a job by my boss, who was one of the first ever lady accountants to become a partner in a world dominated by men. When taken to lunch, I ordered tomato juice. It came in a glbutt sitting in a fruit dish and I poured it into the dish and 'ate' it with the teaspoon that was surely intended to mix in the salt and pepper! Very embarrbutting but what the heck?
On another occasion, accompanying the same lady on a job in far-away Leeds (I lived in Cumberland then), I was horrified when one of the ladies who was employed by our client and was accompanying us to dinner noticed I was left-handed and swiftly proclaimed that all left-handed people had their hearts on the wrong side of their bodies. She then went on to make a similar proclamation about all the other organs in the body. Very sad for me but the next day, when I had some time off, I went out and bought a handbag to make up for it:) -- June Hughes
