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Confusing Budapest with Bucharest; Easily done
Topic Started: Jul 8 2015, 08:04 AM (37 Views)
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News in this week is that the Jersey Sports Minister went to the wrong capital city for a presentation. I feel his pain.

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Now you could look at this as a "nothing" story, but for me it has a greater significance as I too have been guilty of mixing up those very same cities!

About twenty years ago I was working at RAF Manston. One of our staff was sent on a detachment to a British Embassy for a few months, including the Christmas period. Now I really didn't like this chap at all and this was pretty well known. Called in by my boss he tasked me, of all people, with the job of collecting all his Christmas presents, cards. letters and packages from his family and sending them to his temporary location abroad.

This is when I myself became very confused about where he was located. The end result is that whichever city and Embassy he was stationed in, either Budapest or Bucharest, I despatched everything to the wrong Embassy in the wrong capital city in the wrong country.

Did anyone believe me when I said it had been an honest mistake?



No.

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Lt. Derek 'Smurfy' Reeve
:rolf :rolf
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you evil man! lol
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