Lochalsh 
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You didn't like my "boy, howdy"? I thought a bit of local color might appeal to you (though this is the first time I've used the term, despite my long exile in Texas).
Reply #2541. Apr 11 11, 8:08 AM
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| lesley153
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I didn't mind it; I just couldn't think of anything to answer it with. Sorry. :(
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Today, I nipped into my hairdressers to talk about my next appointment. It was school home-time, which is probably why it was deserted apart from two girls sitting at the desk, not talking, just staring into infinity, waiting for it all to end.
It used to close on Mondays till about a year ago, when the new owner decided to open on Mondays, but the outgoing message still says that they're closed on Mondays. I first heard this a few weeks ago and mentioned it in my message.
Today, I asked them if the outgoing message still says closed Mondays.
"I don't know. I haven't listened to it for ages."
It did last time I listened to it.
"We are open on Mondays."
Yes, I know, but the message says you aren't.
"But we do open on Mondays. The message says we are now open on Mondays."
It doesn't. I listened to it again a minute ago, and it ends like this: "Please note, we do not open on Mondays. Thank you."
Questions arising from this exchange:
- Are these girls recruited for their brains?
- Is it possible that I was wrong all these years, thinking that English was my first language?
- Why do I bother? It would be much more sensible to find a brick wall and bang my head repeatedly against it.
I never learn. |
Reply #2542. Apr 11 11, 3:41 PM
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Jazmee27
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Most of us don't.
Reply #2543. Apr 11 11, 4:13 PM
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| lesley153
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| Thank you, that's very comforting. |
Reply #2544. Apr 11 11, 4:26 PM
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| lesley153
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| Sorry I've been quiet. Had a haircut (good); had a tooth out (not nice); had a flying visit from beloved sprog. Well, not particularly flying - 24 hours - but feels like I've been visited by a whirlwind. Face is still sore and I look like a hamster. While he was here, Jonathan installed my new computer and Skype headphones, ate a lot and slept a lot. I'll be fine after a good night's sleep or two. |
Reply #2545. Apr 13 11, 6:22 PM
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Lochalsh
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Glad to hear you're feeling better. ((((((Lesley)))))
Reply #2546. Apr 13 11, 7:18 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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Hmmm...On the 20th, I'll have my last 5 out. Then, I will have a brand new set! Can't wait!
Hope your 'out' tooth was painless. Good luck, girlie!:)
Reply #2547. Apr 13 11, 8:04 PM
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| lesley153
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Thanks Lochalsh. Keep the hugs coming.
It was painless when the anaesthetic started working!
Good luck for the 20th, VM. Ouch. |
Reply #2548. Apr 13 11, 8:19 PM
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Jazmee27
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Ouch is right-I'm just glad it's not me :)
Reply #2549. Apr 13 11, 10:14 PM
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Jazmee27
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Forgot to add "makes me cringe just thinking about it"
Reply #2550. Apr 13 11, 10:15 PM
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| lesley153
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I wish it wasn't me! It's still a bit tender, and I still look like a hamster, but I'm sure it won't last.
My cousin is a lost soul again. His favourite uncle had a stroke and was in a Middlesex hospital. My cousin went to visit him a week after he stayed with me. He was back again on Tuesday for the uncle's funeral. Father, wife and uncle, within two years. He's staying with his daughter and son-in-law for a few days. That should help.
Sprog rang me on skype yesterday and today. It's much clearer than a mobile phone call, and I don't have to run to the front of the house to get a signal. I rang him on skype today. Exciting or what? Yes, well, maybe not that exciting. The new computer he installed is a big change. The old one took a couple of minutes to boot up and about the same to switch off. The new one takes three seconds. He chose well. |
Reply #2551. Apr 14 11, 7:21 PM
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romeomikegolf
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Skype is great. I use it all the time to keep in touch with my son and his family in Japan. I've got a compatible web cam as well so I can see them as well as talk.
Reply #2552. Apr 14 11, 11:34 PM
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| lesley153
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I couldn't see the point but I'm beginning to now. Good if you want to talk to people abroad, which I haven't, but I have a cousin in America and a friend who went to see Israel and decided to stay, so that could be two reasons to ;earn to like it!
When Jonathan went home (London home) the other day, I sent him back with a box of tabbouleh. He's just sent me a picture of a fork in the empty box. Must make it more often.
Hamster effect is starting to wear off. :) |
Reply #2553. Apr 15 11, 8:04 AM
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Lochalsh
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I love tabbouleh, love it, love it.
I hug people who spell it correctly. ((((((Lesley)))))
Reply #2554. Apr 15 11, 8:43 AM
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| lesley153
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Is that all I have to do to get a hug?
Tabbouleh tabbouleh tabbouleh tabbouleh tabbouleh!
Does it help if they make it properly too?
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Reply #2555. Apr 15 11, 9:17 AM
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| lesley153
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Hopes raised and dashed to the ground. There have been increasing signs of almost-human life next door.
Today, two very small children were in the front garden, banging unidentifiable hard objects together. They later moved to the house, ran up and down stairs, thumping and shouting, with the occasional squeal; and finally to the back garden.
The girl started crying. How do you stop a two-year-old crying? Yes, right first time: you shout and scream at her. Adding odd profanities tends to be very helpful.
When she is still screaming and sobbing uncontrollably, you simply shout louder, and step up the swearing. Rarely have I heard such a vicious stream of invective aimed at anyone, let alone a child of two.
Still, it worked. It only took her an hour to calm down, and it was a whole blissful ten minutes before she started crying and screaming again.
There's nothing like a fine example of parenting, and a child who feels valued and loved. |
Reply #2556. Apr 15 11, 9:39 AM
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Lochalsh
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Give the kid some of your terrific tabbouleh? She's probably getting short shrift on the nutrition side, or am I being too globally judgmental?
You know I'll always give you hugs, Middle Eastern cuisine or not. (I'll take some hugs, too, hint-hint-hint, Huggy Monster.)
Reply #2557. Apr 15 11, 12:37 PM
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| lesley153
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She's obviously got parents who are clueless about the finer skills of communication, so goodness knows what else they're clueless about.
If you had an adult friend who was crying, you wouldn't shout "expletive will you expletive shut expletive up" at her, because it probably wouldn't be helpful, so I don't know why they think it would work with a child. I do suspect that she screams and sobs because that's how her parents are teaching her to communicate.
A few months ago, I watched a fraught young woman with a push-chair containing a sobbing toddler. She shouted at him to stop crying, and smacked him from one end of the shopping parade to the other, presumably in the hope of making the crying stop. That didn't work either. |
Reply #2558. Apr 15 11, 6:01 PM
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daymare
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Perhaps someone should have smacked the mum and proved to her how it doesn't help.
Yelling at a crying child is useless. It only makes them cry longer and harder.
When I used to be in charge of children, and they began to cry, I would look them in the eye and ask them what was wrong. They couldn't cry and tell me at the same time so the crying usually stopped.
Reply #2559. Apr 15 11, 7:06 PM
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| lesley153
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| I think asking them what's wrong is always a good move. It doesn't seem to occur to many people that something might actually be wrong. Much easier to believe that the child from hell was born to make their lives a misery, not the other way round. |
Reply #2560. Apr 15 11, 7:17 PM
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