This is just great.
I've just had the privilege of spending 20 mins on the phone to the CAA. Their opening gambit today was:
"PLD is experiencing an unusually high number of enquiries at present..."
After choosing a couple of menu options, 20 minutes of waiting and some pleasant classical music (presumably designed to calm my nerves), the female automated voice advised me to ring another time, and then hung up. Cheers.
But back to the opening sentence- the unusual part in particular sounded kind of familiar. From the concise Oxford Dictionary (New Edition 1977):
unusual a. Not usual; exceptional, remarkable; ...
There's a number of things that could be going on here:
1) I have just been unlucky. Every time that I ring the CAA, it's when calls to SRG hit their peak. Something to do with an ancient curse or something.
2) The definition of unusual has changed radically since 1977.
3) That woman has been programmed to give the same little message whoever you are, whenever you ring up.
4) Or something else.
Ladies and gentlemen, I propose a little straw poll. Please speak up if you have called the CAA in the last 6 months or so, and if so, were you told that "PLD is experiencing an unusually high number of enquiries at present...". Or maybe not.
I'm going to try again in a few minutes, when I've calmed down.
Ciao!
CC