OCC: Angela will be playing a lesbian in this story set in England and I will play Maryanne, a visiting American business woman.
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It's my opinion that Americans get their reputation as crass, loud, impolite beasts amongst our British friends starts here at Heathrow Airport. I mean, you get off the plane, tired and bedraggled from 13 hours of travel from the middle of America, stand in endless passport lines and walk out into the cool damp London air to be met by a taxi driver who speaks faster and with a different tempo and who doesn't seem to understand our perfect English either.
This after pushing a broken luggage cart past steely eyed customs people and pushing through the crowd waiting for their Pakistani relatives.
"It makes you cranky, dammit!"
That's what I was thinking, and probably muttering as I pushed my uncontrollable baggage cart through the swinging doors and into the bedlam of the waiting room that morning.
Happily, there was no taxi driver to be dealt with this time as I was being met and carried to Chipping Camden, near my client's newest acquisition.
Trying not to block traffic, I was fumbling for the name of the person meeting me. Suddenly I saw a white card with "A. Jordan" held by an attractive girl just at the end of the barrier. Her expression was one of active, if not eager, anticipation, peering down the "chute" with a slightly furrowed forehead under her dark, wavy hair.
"Hi, I'm Maryanne. Are you for me?" I sighed with relief as her open smile made a good start at soothing away the cares of the delayed flight.
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It's my opinion that Americans get their reputation as crass, loud, impolite beasts amongst our British friends starts here at Heathrow Airport. I mean, you get off the plane, tired and bedraggled from 13 hours of travel from the middle of America, stand in endless passport lines and walk out into the cool damp London air to be met by a taxi driver who speaks faster and with a different tempo and who doesn't seem to understand our perfect English either.
This after pushing a broken luggage cart past steely eyed customs people and pushing through the crowd waiting for their Pakistani relatives.
"It makes you cranky, dammit!"
That's what I was thinking, and probably muttering as I pushed my uncontrollable baggage cart through the swinging doors and into the bedlam of the waiting room that morning.
Happily, there was no taxi driver to be dealt with this time as I was being met and carried to Chipping Camden, near my client's newest acquisition.
Trying not to block traffic, I was fumbling for the name of the person meeting me. Suddenly I saw a white card with "A. Jordan" held by an attractive girl just at the end of the barrier. Her expression was one of active, if not eager, anticipation, peering down the "chute" with a slightly furrowed forehead under her dark, wavy hair.
"Hi, I'm Maryanne. Are you for me?" I sighed with relief as her open smile made a good start at soothing away the cares of the delayed flight.