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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
I went to Corrie's 'Chiropractic Ball' last night, at Cardiff's Coal Exchange in the Bay. It was a proper black tie type of do with a sit down dinner and presentations and speeches.
So we arrived and sat down and had dinner, which for me was the usual tense affair of trying to avoid anything dairy. Although we'd requested a special meal for me (and my special needs) long before tonight, they'd not bothered or not got the message. The waitress, a surly trollop in her late 80s, was utterly useless: I told her what I couldn't have so she trotted off to the chef to 'enquire'. She came back and said I could have the poached pear. Great, but we were on the starter.
"What about the rest of the meal?"
"It's ok, you can have that" she replied.
I didn't trust her. "Ok, but this salad's got cheese in!"
"Yes, but it's only a little bit."
Brilliant! It reminded me of when someone asked for a vegetarian meal and was offered chicken - the waitress said that she thought vegetarians ate chicken.
Anyway, apart from that, it was a nice do. Some of the chiropractic folk stood up and gave speeches and invited special guests to come up and give talks on various topics and presented awards to the top students of the year. It was a very serious and rather humourless affair. People did laugh but chiropractic humour isn't actually funny.
One interesting aspect of the evening was the mix of people there. There's a bit of a myth about the chiropractic course at Glamorgan: it's got a disproportionate amount of good looking girls. Well, it's true, there are certainly more than on, say, the computer engineering course. Most of the girls are stunning so Corrie fitted in quite well. But what was interesting was that most of the blokes were plain and ordinary, nothing special. And all the awards for the top students of the year went to the girls - apparently it's like this every year. Blokes, it seems from my observations, are ugly and thick.
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