Connie and Percy

This is Connie and Percy McKnelly from Swindon. He has a degree in Comparative Linguistic and she is a noted cartographer who published a monograph on the Piri Reis Map. Percy makes a little bit of money writing a sarcastic community column for the "Swindon Advertiser". They travel a lot and spend a lot on books. When they were young they dreamt of fortune and fame in their respective fields, now they play bridge competitively and made it to Life-Masters. A year and a half ago they traveled to Anaheim to an ACBL pairs event, on the night of the opening session, they left their hotel and started walking to the Convention Centre. On the way, they saw a newly opened "Wolfgang Puck" advertising two-for-one Sushi and two-for-one Martinis (never in a million years in Swindon). They went in to take a look and, next thing they saw: staff was putting chairs on tables, it was eleven thirty, they were drunk and missed their game.