Holiday
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10 years ago I went on holiday with my then husband on the Rocky Mountaineer from Calgary to Vancouver in Canada. We arrived in Vancouver and booked into our hotel. We staggered with our luggage to the lift, pressed the button and the lift arrived. Once inside the lift I found it difficult to manoeuvre and stretched across the luggage to press for the second floor when the lift doors suddenly closed, and instead of going up we went down to the basement. The door opened and there stood Ray and Maggie. Ray had in the past played cricket with my ex-husband in a village cricket team in a small village in Oxfordshire: neither of us knew that we were going on holiday to Canada. Two seconds earlier I would have pressed the button and no doubt we would have arrived on the second floor not having seen them. They left the next day.
Date submitted:Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:42:25 +0000Coincidence ID:5708
