Chillybean
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First job out of university in the Middle East around 1988 and was told that we might have VIP visit. Took the advice to tidy up the office and make more of an effort to look presentable as assumed it would be the local Arab leader. Wasn't wrong the local leader turned up along with George H Bush Vice President of the USA and Jane Goodhall the primate expert. I had to be told that the American was the Vice President of the USA, he wasn't on my radar while at university, within a year he was president.
Won't bother going out in this torrential rain to wave to the Royal helicopter as it flies over on her way back home.