Pemalite said:
SanAndreasX said:
As to the rest of it, did you remember much about meeting Her Highness? The highest-ranked public official I ever met in my life was our Representative in Congress at the time when I was 10, when my dad was meeting with him for assistance in getting a disability rating from the VA from a career-ending injury he received during annual military training.
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She was very prim, proper and polite... Everything that an Australian isn't, we tend to speak what we think for the most part.
And I guess that is actually what she liked most about Australia, it wasn't full of yes-men who are there to try and appeal and gain favor.
It was definitely an "act" but she also did genuinely care as well.
I have met multiple leaders of Australia... Even called one a wanker to their face, but I am a community driven individual with a lot of ties to fire/rescue and officials, media and so forth because of it. - The prime minister and news were often sharing images and videos of the 2019 bushfires that I had taken for example.
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When I was young, my sister and I also had an opportunity to meet President Reagan... except that the venue ended up being overbooked.
I also had the dubious pleasure of sitting on a plane in front of one of my Senators, who I heartily dislike, on a flight from Washington, DC. He blathered the whole time to his seat mate.
I would have liked to have been able to meet with the Queen, but of course, it was never to be, as I am not a Commonwealth citizen.
