Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

:beer: Hooray to news of Herself's improvement and may it continue apace. You'll have to tell us when the wedding is so we can raise a vitual champagne glass to your nuptials.

I (mostly) pass as normal. I feel I have to work at it, tho. One of my oldest friends recalls meeting me for the first time a quarter of a century ago at a party at someone's house. He says I was wearing purple and being scary.

Diabolic lie. I was wearing black and silver with a purple scarf and dodging the attentions of some bloke who I worked with who'd obviously decided I was the least-worst option that night and was diligently persuing me. There just aren't enough rooms in a small terrace to make dodging someone viable so I was probably looking a little fraught. Anyroad, us nearly-six-feet tall redheads can do scary quite easily.

Good job these days that I'm greying, comfortably-padded and less prone to wearing black. I'm told I've got a kind face and people certainly ask me for directions most days so I'm obs not too scary to approach. I would have held out for drop-dead gorgeous and bu88er kind, but you have to play the hand you're dealt.

Sheesh, really must get the tea on. Have been carrying out a complicated convo with my mother about storage containers as I can't buy cereal ones short enough to fit between the cupboard shelves; was shopping this afternoon with a tape-measure. Such a ridiculous lack of space here and so many incriminating things to hide.

Anyway, she has just the thing. Everyone should be blessed with such a mother as mine; generous to a fault and with hoarding tendancies. Whatever you need, she can probably supply; in triplicate...........:rotfl:

mardatha

Mrs L, I'd love to come and visit you, I know it would be great fun!
GQ, nobody has ever said I was normal. Nobody. And that was even before I got into ghosts and speaking to dead people

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

Mrs L, I'd love to come and visit you, I know it would be great fun!
GQ, nobody has ever said I was normal. Nobody. And that was even before I got into ghosts and speaking to dead people

I used to have a normal friend.

It was weird; she managed effortlessly to do the most normal thing in any set of circumstances. She even gave her kids the most popular name for a child of that gender born in that year without even knowing she was doing it.

It couldn't last, we had nothing in common. Just because I was driving around with a sink in my car (not plumbed-in, in case you're wondering)......... It had fallen off the back of a skip and I got good money for that.

I feel that a sense of furtiveness about some weirdness is psycologically healthy. It indicates that I know I'm a bit odd and want to blend in. I certainly don't want the world and it's wife coming over here in the apocalypse cadging tinned tomatoes. You've got to share with your nearest and dearest, but a certain degree of OPSEC is helpful.

Some of my pals think I just keep tinned tomatoes under the bed. If only they knew what else I keep under there, and where the rest of the cache is.

Insofar as I'm aware, I have never actually spoken to dead people. Wouldn't refuse to, if the opportunity presented itself, y'unnerstand. I'm of the opinion that the live ones are more likely to be troublesome than the deid.

Supper is chili con carne with steamed parsnip and a side of coleslaw followed by a chinese pear and custard. Good job I only have myself to please most nights.

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Come on down MAR t'kettles on and I have Dunking Jelly Babies - see told you I was wierd!!!!! I don't and never have done normal - it's no fun at all - besides I just don't know anyone calles Jones to need to keep up with so there's really no hope I'm proud to say - that's us folks Wierd and ourselves - we belong to no one!!!!!

katieclampet

I always think of myself as totally normal, and everyone else as weird!! rather than the other way round. You lot all sound totally crackers, nice, interesting, well informed, well read, but crackers!

katie

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Perplexed_Pineapple wrote: »

We had a representative call a few years ago, let them in...

...haven't had any issues since.

I wish that were true, in all such cases.

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pineapple wrote: »

Sometimes we can come across as confrontational when not meaning to be?
More so when posting as opposed to a face to face dialogue. It's something to bear in mind before hitting send

Sorry, I accidentally left a word out. :embarasse

It should have read:-

"You know that's bulls**t, don't you?"

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ivyleaf wrote: »

I don't think Bedsit Bob's remark was meant in that way, but rather that he was commenting that GQ knows b******t when she reads it

You are correct.

I accidentally omitted the word "that's", from the sentence. :embarasse

I was, of course, referring to the statement by TVL being bulls**t.

VJsmum

The hairdresser told my son that I was a character

Is that a good thing? I guess it might depend on which character. I am more Elizabeth Bennett (though not as funny) than Morticia Adams - though himself is more Herman Munster than Mr Darcy :rotfl: (and, yes, I know the Munster's and the Adams' are different!).

I definitely have an inner hippy more than an inner weirdo though - and I fight to keep her suppressed. My bezzie is the most norma normal person you could meet and would scoff at my stash and my night time rambles round t'internet. I will have the last laugh tho.....

Well, actually, I guess I hope I won't cos the last laugh would mean the S had HTF so it would be a pyrrhic victory.

RAS

I've been coming up against this lot since about 1980. X and I had no TV and apart from when I was in a shared house where there was one, I have not had one since.

I think about 2% of the UK population are refusniks but amongst people I know well it is about 25%! Seem the SHTF crew are even less likely to indulge.

The only time I had regular access in recent years (well one weekend in 2-4) I used to read the listings on the train down on Friday night and generally decide that the only thing I would watch might be the news!