The Royal Albert Hall

Good morning and happy Sunday to you!  It's the first Sunday of the month and that means only one thing, it's time for Storytelling Sunday with Sian.

Up until an hour ago I didn't have a story for today and thought I wouldn't be able to join in, which made me a little bit sad.  I decided to have a sort out of some layouts that I'd recently done and there it was, in the pile, my story for today!

I'd recently met Paul in London while he was doing a tour, taking some passengers to the Royal Albert Hall.  It was a beautiful night and I got a couple of nice pictures on my phone so I created this layout because I do have a few tales of the Royal Albert Hall:

Today's story is one of the funniest I have from the RAH.  Cliff Richard was doing a concert there and my company had bought every single ticket.  I was helping coordinate the arrival and departure of over five thousand passengers, on coaches!  My mum loves Cliff so I bought her a couple of tickets for her birthday so I was coordinating over five thousand passengers and Mum.

Everyone was there on time, in on time and at their seats ready to watch the show.  At the end of the evening everyone was out promptly, on their coaches promptly and back to their hotels for a good night's sleep.  There was only one problem that night, as I was on my way home at about 1am I got a call from a Tour Manager to say that one of her passengers had left the RAH with the wrong jacket.  I told them there was nothing I could do about it at the time and she would have to contact the office on the Monday morning to see if anyone had called in to say they also had the wrong coat, the passenger was happy to do that and I was happy that I'd only had one minor problem.

The next morning I went to see my mum to make sure she had enjoyed the concert.  I was sitting in her living room with a cup of coffee when something caught my eye.  "Mum" I asked "where did you get that jacket?"  "Oh" she says "someone took my jacket by mistake last night"

What are the odds of that? The only issue I had involved my mum, out of all those people!  Did the jackets ever get returned to the rightful owners?  No, my mum's jacket was quite expensive and the one she had come home with was not so we never heard from the passenger with the wrong jacket again.

Now it's your turn to head over to Sian's and tell your story.

Thanks for dropping by
Jo xx