Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

Doozergirl

She's 12, GBD.

I'm sure your heart is lovely. I'm on the register too, did it when I got my Boots Advantage Card. My mum died very young and we couldn't donate her organs because she was ill but I made the decision to donate her brain and spinal cord to research into Multiple Sclerosis just so that we might help someone.

H is very clear that I want to do the same but I hadn't made the formal move to do it because it brings back memories. But I've been prompted by this and sent them an email to sort that out properly. It's not the same as putting a heart into a child but it's something I can definitely do and I hope it helps someone.

GDB2222

So, at the age of 12 she's getting a heart transplant - I guess a child's heart. Fortunate for her, but some other parents grieving though. Sad, really really sad.

GDB2222

Apparently Phil Mitchell is going to have a heart attack in Eastenders. It just struck me that when they are filming that would be a particularly dangerous time to have a real heart attack.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

So, at the age of 12 she's getting a heart transplant - I guess a child's heart. Fortunate for her, but some other parents grieving though. Sad, really really sad.

It is sad but a better ending than two children being grieved for. They can have what they want of me to do whatever with. It is very strongly my belief that my body is NOT ''me'' and when I am no longer residing in it then its ''meat'' only. I hope its used for its very best good.

PasturesNew

Had a bizarre occurrence today. Went to look in a shop, which had shiny things. Baskets of stuff in bags.... obviously gagging to be picked up and looked at. Woman/assistant and I were the only people in the shop - and she actually took something out of my hands and put it back in the basket while I was still enjoying the look of it.

Made me feel really bad, so I legged it. Don't want to be in shops with odd people .....

JonnyBravo

PasturesNew wrote: »

she actually took something out of my hands and put it back in the basket while I was still enjoying the look of it.

Made me feel really bad, so I legged it. Don't want to be in shops with odd people .....

Are you sure you weren't dribbling?

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

Had a bizarre occurrence today. Went to look in a shop, which had shiny things. Baskets of stuff in bags.... obviously gagging to be picked up and looked at. Woman/assistant and I were the only people in the shop - and she actually took something out of my hands and put it back in the basket while I was still enjoying the look of it.

Made me feel really bad, so I legged it. Don't want to be in shops with odd people .....

Vote with your feet PN. Shop has lost at least 1 customer now.
Did she not say why or anything?

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Vote with your feet PN. Shop has lost at least 1 customer now.
Did she not say why or anything?

No - and there was no need to do it. The stuff was in sealed bags, bulk bags, in a basket placed on the floor. The stuff was unbreakable and I'd simply picked up a bag and was admiring the colour of the contents in the daylight/stood up, rather than stooping to peer into the dark basket under the counter.

I always experience trouble in shops, I must send out some "I am a shoplifter/oddball about to kick off" vibes

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

No - and there was no need to do it. The stuff was in sealed bags, bulk bags, in a basket placed on the floor. The stuff was unbreakable and I'd simply picked up a bag and was admiring the colour of the contents in the daylight/stood up, rather than stooping to peer into the dark basket under the counter.

I always experience trouble in shops, I must send out some "I am a shoplifter/oddball about to kick off" vibes

I think the only thing I'd have done differently Pn would've been to have advised said assistant of my estimation of their value to the human race...;)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

No - and there was no need to do it. The stuff was in sealed bags, bulk bags, in a basket placed on the floor. The stuff was unbreakable and I'd simply picked up a bag and was admiring the colour of the contents in the daylight/stood up, rather than stooping to peer into the dark basket under the counter.

I always experience trouble in shops, I must send out some "I am a shoplifter/oddball about to kick off" vibes

PN, over the festive season we saw something we were umming and ahhing over in a charity shop, and the two cantankerous old women were stage whispering that we might be stealing items from it (we'd asked to look at it and it was in the window). I turned and said very loudly and in the accent my parents sent me to UK for....''Would you prefer my husband lift this out and we look at it at the till?''. Not heatedly or nastily, but authoritatively. One said ''No, its ok'' and smiled the other said, at the same time '' we weren't talking about you'' so causing old lady one to ebow her in the ribs. At this point I laughed and pointed out we were the only people in the shop. We would have left but there discomfort was more than worth the prowling about for a while.

Theft happens and I don't mind people being observant, after all, the cost for us goes up when people steal too, but to be rude is another matter.