Thursday, August 13, 2009

Lucky @ Madame Tussauds

Well it so seems that, I might be back on the IST but my mind still flutters away to the memories of GMT. This is about the day we went to Madame Tussauds. As we (me, Pri and G) got into the line which, took us to the ticket counter after an hour, we were apprehensive about spending 25 GBP on each ticket...a total of 75 GBP. Wow! How much could we shop or eat in that money. But still, we did not want to come back home and repent for the rest of our life that we went all the way to London and came back without seeing Madame Tussauds.

After deciding to spend that indecent amount on a museum tour of wax dummies, we started counting the cash we would be left with after this. Since this was our second last day in London we were almost out of foreign currency. As we counted the Pounds and Pennies, Pri got a tap on her shoulder. A Scottish woman smiled at her and gave her a chit of paper - "Here you can take this." Blank from the the boggled accent we took the paper and asked her what it was about. "Its 3 for 2." Now what the hell does that mean? Still confused from the answer, we read the printing on the paper. The first line said - This TESCO coupon entitles you to a single free entry at any of the following attractions - The London Dungeon, London Eye, Madame Tussauds, Aquarium, British Museum...WHAAAAT...did it say Madame Tussauds???? We read the line again and again to reassure ourselves. We looked back at her and mumbled - So its...??? "Yeah you can go 3 for 2." It turned out that what she meant was that 3 of us could go in at the price of 2 tickets. DUH!

Our smiles broadened to the point where, everyone resembled Julia Roberts and we uttered a BIG Thank You to the nice lady. We don't know why she did that act of generosity. Excited from the discount we kept thanking her till we bought our tickets and smiled every time we bumped into her. God bless her...she became a part of our unforgettable trip and will always be remembered when we talk about it!

2 comments:

diptiii said...
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Dip said...

you three should make a waxdummy of this woman for the indian wax museum in select city ;p

GOOD that you didn't come back without being at the tussauds, would have been sad