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2016 - Healthier, Happier

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We all need cheering up a bit.  What are the 'funniest/strangest" things that have happened to you?

One of mine was I visited China, many, many years ago and was in the forbidden city.  I needed to go to the toilet.  OK, so what?  There was a row of toilets (over a dozen) which were separated by a board about 3 feet high (showing head and legs).  I sat down, looked right then left and found everyone was looking my way - in those days foreigners weren't seen very often, we were called "long noses"!  It nearly put me off my performance.😄😄

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  • EileenH
    EileenH constance.de

    Posted

    Chinese loos have improved a bit since then - the dividing partitions are full height but still no doors! I have to say - I wouldn't want to touch a smartphone there since they squat and play games...
    • constance.de
      constance.de EileenH

      Posted

      Or shake hands - as some of the older Chinese women wanted to do.  They wanted to have photographs taken with me, presumably to show those in their villages that they had had contact with a 'westerner' !!

      Things, of course, have changed a lot since then.  Mostly because of the Olympic Games I presume.  So many foreigners there.

    • EileenH
      EileenH constance.de

      Posted

      They still want photos! And the young ones were so proud of being able to speak to us in English! 
  • Susanne_M_UK
    Susanne_M_UK constance.de

    Posted

    Here's one we still laugh about.

    A few years ago, my husband, Lee, and I attended a classical music competition at The Royal Academy of Music in London. Admission was free, but seats were not reservable and on a first come basis.

    We entered the hall, which by now was about three quarters full, but I spotted two empty seats in the front row. One of the seats had a programme on the chair. I said "we'll sit there, you can't reserve seats". Lee wasn't keen, but I insisted and moved the programme, which had some handwritten notes on it, to a seat in the second row.

    Five minutes before the concert was due to start, a woman walked up to me and said "I think you're in my seat. Did you move my programme?". I of course responded indignantly, asking her if she was aware that you couldn't reserve seats and that you couldn't just plonk your programme down and disappear. I've cut this bit short, but I elaborated quite a bit on people who don't play by the rules.

    Lee, not wanting any confrontations or unpleasantness, managed to persuade me to move to the free second row and gave her the programme.

    The woman with the programme then stood up and walked up on stage, introducing the competition and herself as one of the judges. Of course, she looked pointedly at me while making this introduction!

    It was a great concert. :-)

    • constance.de
      constance.de Susanne_M_UK

      Posted

      I've got another one - not funny or strange - , but sweet.

      I was in a large store some time ago and a small boy (about 6 or 7) came up to me and held my hand, mumbling something about his Grandma.  I said "I'm not your Grandma, dear".  His  answer?  "I know you're not, but you must be somebody's Grandma".

  • julian.
    julian. constance.de

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    my Chinese public loo stories are mostly of nonchalently emptying our motorhome cassette ....

    but wider afield, we free camped when we could. Invariably a herd of animals would magically appear within a half hour. Followed by herder, and we always had a chat.

    Albanian herder, no English and us with no Albanian. We think he wanted to know where we were from.

    "Australia"

    Instant response - "Ah ... Julian Gillard" - with smiles all round.

    • constance.de
      constance.de julian.

      Posted

      I realized that 2 minutes after I had posted.  It was the 'Julian' that threw me, I thought he might have been a performer of some kind!!

      Mind you, I am terrible at remembering names.  I find it difficult to remember the German President's name at times, and the French President's.  I even sometimes call the English Prime Minister Campbell for some reason!!!!!  My darling husband says "think woman, THINK".

    • EileenH
      EileenH julian.

      Posted

      Wonder what she would think about being described as a typo? lol

      If only all politicians were typos - then you could correct them more easily...

  • IssyR
    IssyR constance.de

    Posted

    Many years ago i was a home help and on my daily visits i would attend a little elderly lady with 2 cats..everyday i'd do my best to leave her house a little less hairy but the following day back to hairy house syndrome...Anywhoo i go along this one morning and this nice wee lady says i've bought us a lovely cream cake for a cup of tea...not wanting to be rude or cause offence after my duties were done we sat down for our cuppa...i look across and their poking out of the cream bun was a big hair...what to do...anyway decided i should act....i said "you have a hair in your bun" reached over to pull it out and much to my mortification found out it was attached to her chinny chin chin....!!!!
    • constance.de
      constance.de IssyR

      Posted

      Oh dear, I fear for my future!  I have two white hairs which appear next to my mouth every few weeks that are quite long (3/4 to 1 inch).  I cut them off, they reappear, have even shaved them off, they reappear.  They are white and very fine so I can't actually SEE them, but I FEEL them.  Two hairs?!!  Will they grow so long that I will find I'm eating them?
    • EileenH
      EileenH constance.de

      Posted

      If you just cut or shave them they will just continue growing, just like a man's beard or your own hair (though that is a bit slower). Tweezers will keep them at bay a little bit longer - but until the root is destroyed they'll just keep appearing. My tweezers live next to the computer - removal is needed as soon as I'm aware of them! And I have more than 2!
    • constance.de
      constance.de EileenH

      Posted

      Have tried that but the tweezers just slip off, the hairs are even finer than those on my head.  Perhaps when I have my eyebrows trimmed I'll ask the hairdresser to pluck them out.
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