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Lucky

I was pulling up in the car park at the Immigration Removal Centre

When I realised that I'd completely f 'ed up

 

Having remembered:

- portable recording studio

- condensor microphones x 2 (one of them doesn't work, dunno which one, they look the same)

- dynamic microphone (sometimes works)

- XLR cables x 2 (in a tangled mess)

- Jack cables x 2 (joining the party)

- headphones

- headphone splitter (a remedy for people who are always on their phone?!)

- big-to-little adapters

- kettle lead (so named because it dates back from when the kettle was king)

- guitar

- and two folders of important bits of paper (well, at least some of it might be important)

 

I suddenly realised that I'd forgotten the only genuinely essential thing.

My passport.

You can't get in without your passport.

That's the rule and the rules don't bend.

Security is paramount.

 

I find my colleague, Lucky, sitting in his car.

Lucky: "Kev, you aren't gonna believe this but..."

He didn't need to say anymore.

I knew that he had done the same thing.

Lucky and I were in the same *** of s***.

 

But for some reason they made an exception.

We were lucky.

It must had rubbed off.

 

(true story)

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Dec 29, 2011
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