Forgive me if I've already posted this story here.
Some years ago, a friend visited our house, saw my Western model of a BEA Vanguard and remarked that in the late 1980s, while working for Elan Air Cargo?, he had flown from EMA to Cologne on the flight deck of a Vanguard-for the sole reason that his boss was too mean to pay for a commercial flight for him.
Needless to say, as a person totally uninterested in aircraft, it meant nothing to him, but I would damn near have killed to have had that experience!
My friend is a football fanatic and I reflected, a few years later, when I had to inspect Umbro's HQ (I'm a surveyor), that for me it was nothing (my eyes glaze over instantly at the mention of football), but he would probably have damn near killed to have had my experience. Pity we couldn't swap.