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My Dad would have appreciated your tale Dave!
He told me that when he reported back to the office in London after he survived the sinking of the Empire Norseman in 1943, a snotty (as Dad put it) office junior asked Dad, in a superior tone of voice, why he was there, who he was supposed to see an so on. Dad was in his civvies, having had to throw his uniform away after the sinking, and not yet been to Gardiners in Aldgate for a new one.
"Listen son, my last ship was Empire Norseman, and in case you didn't know, it was sunk."
"Oh, sorry sir, step this way please sir, please sit there sir, can I get you anything sir? "
Dad always had a chuckle about that incident.
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"You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time towards the open sea. It goes. That's all." Bernard Moitessier.
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