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The Mary Poppins Effect

Nigel Sanitt on waiters, actors and bad faith.

Let me start with a story. Yesterday, I met Mary Poppins. Perhaps I should explain a little more. I was talking to the concierge at our hotel in Disneyworld – my children insisted that we included this stop on our holiday in the United States – when an exotic figure appeared in my peripheral vision. My eyes did a double-take but my mouth just carried on talking – although I had no idea what I was saying.

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