Back to where we left off (conversation killers...)

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:16 pm

crow - oh, you mean the airport limo, or the airport shuttle.

hmmm, the times i've done that i've been in the back too. sitting up front would be too forward.

i'm fine w/ chattering on, but i bet you could have guessed that.

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:28 pm

I've had some very deep, albeit drunken conversations with cabbies. I have never discussed the weather or business, but art, politics, music, and various methods of back support (okay, that one wasn't so deep, but it was very drunk, on my part, anyway, and quite enlightening).

Also, while I don't have curly hair, I do have very thick, straight hair, and am very prone to pyramid head.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:40 pm

Once, I lost this corset (and no, I wasn't wearing it at the time), and I thought I might have left it in the cab, so I went back to where the cabbies hang out in Jersey City. Luckily, I remembered the number of the cab I'd been in (69), but unluckily, my corset wasn't in it, and I had to buy another one. But the cab driver was super-nice, and insisted that I get in his cab every time he saw me after that.

taz · Post by **taz** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:11 pm

That might be a little disconcerting Miss BA...I just see a rough guy with a three-day old beard slinking along the curb in his cab with an arm out the window going 'c'mere....c'mere girl...git in the cab...'

maybe it's just me....

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:20 pm

No, taz, it's more like he'd jump out of his cab, arms waving, souing, "Here! Here!" I guess that sounds a little disconcerting, too, but somehow I wasn't disconcerted.

taz · Post by **taz** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 4:44 pm

'souing'? Is that the sound a pig makes?

(this is the thread for random comments right?)

Poppet · Post by **Poppet** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:12 pm

MBA, your description of the taxi driver made me giggle.

and boy, do i need giggles today.

and not the giggles of imminent insanity. i've GOT those.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:47 pm

Funny MBA still remembers that cab number to this day!

Glaswegians are generally very friendly...not like people from Edinburgh!

well, they're not all bad! Tourists tend to say ED-IN-BORO...like Lou Reed in Modern Dance, brilliant song...but it's actually ED-IN-BRUGH phonetically.

pip_52 · Post by **pip_52** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 6:55 pm

When I was in Edinburgh I was stuck with a very annoying person who pronounced it Edin-BURG (like Pittsburgh). For some reason I found this more irritating than just about anything else in the world. I was in a bad, bad mood that weekend . . .

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 7:07 pm

Wasn't that the thing that sunk the Titanic?

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 8:20 pm

Hey, Miss BA, I saw a really nice cab driver the other day wearing a corset.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:05 am

Gra! I knew it!

Goody2Shoes · Post by **Goody2Shoes** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 10:51 am

You know how when you're just a little bit drunk, how you notice something new and puzzling about something you're very familiar with, and it drives you crazy until you answer the question? Here's mine:

Does anyone know what is the instrument on The Long Honeymoon that makes a sound like 4 quick blasts from an aerosol spray can? It first comes in right after the first line, and then those 4 funny little sounds.

This was weighing on my mind all weekend, can't listen to it without the image of Pete Thomas standing there, waiting to spray his can of Right Guard, exactly on cue.

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:06 pm

Sorry Goody not a clue...

true about being drunk and noticing weird things though...the other day I was genuinely shocked to realise I was 22 (and not 21 as I drunkenly thought)....weird.

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:39 pm

That happened to me as well recently, Crow-- I was baffled and crestfallen to discover I was 42 and not 16....

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:47 pm

I was watching a show called Spaced today on DVD, great comedy...anyways, the girl in it is feeling a bit 'on the shelf' and asks a young married couple how old they are...they reply they're younger, and she tells her pal..

'We're older than that married couple'

he replies..

'Yeah, but only physically'

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:12 pm

True story: today I got a direct mail appeal for reserving my spot in the local cemetary.

I am now officially old....

PlaythingOrPet · Post by **PlaythingOrPet** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:10 pm

Goody, I think it might be one of those things. You know, one of those thingys with metal balls around the outside, held in one hand and kinda twisted against the other. Looks like a baby's rattle.

Damn I knew that book of 101 obscure instruments and their names would've come in handy....

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 11:25 pm

my 10 y.o. son routinely receives advertisments from The Scooter Store and appeals to join AARP--worry not about the cemetary, SMM.

and due to the fact that I can't add worth shit, I turned 36 a few years ago thinking I was 37, so now I'm only 39 because that's fair, right?

Post by **spooky girlfriend** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:14 am

Oh hell, I turn 40 this August, but we won't talk about that right now.

What I will talk about is this. I was driving the kids to school this morning and noticed a car in the middle of the road. It was just parked sideways in the intersection and I just thought it was some kind of idiot driver. As I passed by, I saw the driver passed out with his head thrown back. I almost stopped, but saw several other people begin to stop. I didn't want the kids to be late for school, so I dropped off the boys and came back by as I was taking my daughter to high school. In just those 3 or 4 minutes, there must have been a dozen people there, one a nurse, several people trying to talk to the guy, one person on the cell phone giving directions to the police and ambulance. I stopped to ask what had happened since I had just been by and they said it looked like a heart attack. The ambulance then pulled up and I needed to get Jessica on to school.

It was just nice to see that humanity still existed with all those strangers there helping that guy. I would have stayed myself, but I did have children to disperse about town. I don't know that they should have seen the situation anyway. But it still did my heart good to see that human kindness isn't totally out of existence.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:20 am

wow, you had an exciting morning! it is nice to see people stop to help.

we stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work yesterday, and this very nice looking crazy lady walked up to my oldest daughter and said "are those 14" tires? they look like 14" tires."

laughingcrow · Post by **laughingcrow** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 9:42 am

Were they 14'' tires?

She might have just enjoyed automotive engineering!

oily slick · Post by **oily slick** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:33 am

c'mon, we're dying to know. did you put itty-bitty tires on that mini-van? that would be a better story if the crazy lady would have been having a simultaneous heart attack.

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:02 am

it wasn't my vehicle she was referring to, but a mustang--I suppose they were 14" tires. I don't know. I just wanted to buy milk and candy. the phrase has become an overnight sensation around our humble house. yes, we are easily amused.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:18 pm

Is anyone else around here into America's Next Top Model? Somehow--I don't know how--I seem to have become obsessed with it.