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Date: 15 September 2006 12:57:06
"Excuse me, miss? Excuse me?"
"Me? Oh, um sure," [Thinks: "you'd better not be about to ask me if I'm washed in the blood of the lamb."]
"How do I get to Anne Hathaway's cottage from here? I can't see it on the map."
[Blank look].
"Where?"
"Anne Hathaway's cottage."
[Brain creaks slowly into gear. Thinks: "Oh, not again"].
"Ah. You're actually in the wrong Stratford. See, this is Chaucer's Stratford, Stratford-at-Bow, you want Shakespeare's Stratford, Stratford-upon-Avon, which is in Warwickshire, and not on the Tube. And I'm not precisely sure which mainline station the train would go from, but I'm sure this man will be able to help."
[Collars passing London Transport employee and runs away, giggling to herself].