My favourite of these stories was when my mum and sister (who was born in Bombay), were changing planes there on a package tour, the guides gave them this whole spiel about not responding to the many touts, beggars etc they'd encounter on the way through the airport, as there are lots of people in Bombay airport who make their living rolling tourists. Cue my mother taking 5 steps into the concourse and flinging her ams around the first Indian chap who crossed her path, who just happened to be an extremely old friend of ours. Apparently the guides wee really peeved.
Dawn: You're not fleeing. You're... moving at a brisk pace. Buffy: Quaintly referred to in some cultures as the Big Scaredy Run Away.
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Jim - Jan 09, 2003 7:26:41 am PST #1238 of 9843
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Nutty - Jan 09, 2003 7:43:33 am PST #1239 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I have had this happen twice! Once with a woman I hated, on the Paris Metro, and once with a woman I liked on the Royal Mile of Edinburgh. Yay tourism?
Let us not begin the number of times I have ego-googled and found people with my last name, and curious, investigated them -- only to discover they were my first cousins.
Hey. They live in Canada. All right, we're not hte most connect-y of families.
Penny B. - Jan 09, 2003 8:11:06 am PST #1240 of 9843
Nobody
Ack. I was once in a newspaper office bitching about a former colleague from years past who was supposed to be in Hong Kong Then she walked around the corner.
Apparently my facial expression was one of pure horror.
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Nutty, maybe we're first cousins. Anyone from Southern Ontario?
Nutty - Jan 09, 2003 8:43:02 am PST #1241 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Quebec, I fear. They split time between Montreal and Geneva (their mother is Swiss). My other cousins are Britons, so it's not entirely a wonder that we don't see each other.
My cousins in Baltimore? I see them all the time, now.
brenda m - Jan 09, 2003 9:12:19 am PST #1242 of 9843
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Penny, I have family in Sarnia and Toronto - where are you from?
Anne W. - Jan 09, 2003 10:23:26 am PST #1243 of 9843
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Nutty, you have family in Baltimore?
keeps meaning to instigate a Balto-Washington F2F
Nutty - Jan 09, 2003 11:09:00 am PST #1244 of 9843
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well, the communicative cousin is about to move to San Diego, with his wife and itty bitty niece (second cousin once removed? Whatev). But yeah.
Of course, by "all the time" I mean I have seen these cousins twice in one year, which is a bit of a leg up on the other cousins, one of whom (who is now about 18) I've never met at all.
Jon B. - Jan 09, 2003 12:06:12 pm PST #1245 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Jim, Fiona, etc. - I dropped two tapes in the post today. 6 hours of Firefly and 2 of Buffy.
Penny B. - Jan 09, 2003 12:16:24 pm PST #1246 of 9843
Nobody
I'm from the Yukon, but my folks come from Woodstock and Kempville.
Fiona - Jan 09, 2003 1:57:31 pm PST #1247 of 9843
Jim, Fiona, etc. - I dropped two tapes in the post today. 6 hours of Firefly and 2 of Buffy.
Yay Jon, TapeFairy extraordinaire!
('Course, I'm still waiting for the second batch of tapes, which Jim posted last week. Which explains why John H, Nilly etc. are still waiting for the first batch of tapes, which I wanted to send together. I'll keep you posted).