Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

Spirit_2

lostinrates wrote: »

Last time, a few years ago, was with DH and a work trip and my feet were killing me then too. .

It was in Paris that an American colleague of my husband taught me a new phrase which means my feet are killing me.

"My puppies are barking". We use this phrase to this day, used it this morning actually.

As I type i am sittting in the garden with my 'puppies' in a bowl of warm water with dead sea salts in, visitors are gone and I have abandoned all dignity in an attempt to cheer my feet up.

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Oh dear - if/ when we meet, you might not be able to look me in the eye :rotfl:

:rotfl::rotfl:

No, not at all. I think it makes perfect sense.

You might not be able to look me in the eye If I say I will take your advice seriously for at least that week or so :eek:

In fact, its not what I thought you were going to say, which leaves a concern still un addressed, but I'm going to ask a doctor.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I can see that DW and you have both had a sympathy-ectomy.

Ignore the meanies.

I fall quite a lot, and I know that even though quite a lot of the time it makes me laugh other times it is unsettling, and even if you only get bruised or scraped then ones ego or sense of security can be fragile.

I went on Friday in topps tiles. . I was paying for my tile samples. I didn't graze anything and wasn't unsettled though, so no painkillers for me,

zagubov

Spirit wrote: »

It was in Paris that an American colleague of my husband taught me a new phrase which means my feet are killing me.

"My puppies are barking". We use this phrase to this day, used it this morning actually.

As I type i am sittting in the garden with my 'puppies' in a bowl of warm water with dead sea salts in, visitors are gone and I have abandoned all dignity in an attempt to cheer my feet up.

It's a lovely language. I love their word for now. It's the time you can hold in your hand. Main-tenant. Pure poetry.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Ouch, poor you. Falling shakes one up a bit too.

Thank you, LIR. It does shake you up a bit. I sat on the ground and nursed my wounds, and a lady stopped her 4x4 and offered to help me get up. That was very sweet of her, but she didn't appreciate that at that particular moment I preferred to be sitting. There's a feeling amongst passers-by that they need to help by getting the person standing upright again ASAP, regardless of whether they are feeling a bit groggy.

Then, somebody else stopped his car too, which was kind of him, but basically I was okay. Just bleeding a bit and rather upset.

I'm really, really sorry to hear that you are knocking your teeth when you fall. That's decidedly un-funny and on a completely different scale compared to my man-wounds, which of course don't matter (because I'm a man, obviously, .... and if I'd gone through childbirth, etc ..... ).

zagubov

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thank you, LIR. It does shake you up a bit. I sat on the ground and nursed my wounds, and a lady stopped her 4x4 and offered to help me get up. That was very sweet of her, but she didn't appreciate that at that particular moment I preferred to be sitting. There's a feeling amongst passers-by that they need to help by getting the person standing upright again ASAP, regardless of whether they are feeling a bit groggy.

Then, somebody else stopped his car too, which was kind of him, but basically I was okay. Just bleeding a bit and rather upset.

I'm really, really sorry to hear that you are knocking your teeth when you fall. That's decidedly un-funny and on a completely different scale compared to my man-wounds, which of course don't matter (because I'm a man, obviously, .... and if I'd gone through childbirth, etc ..... ).

I remember seeing a short bit of film on youtube recently where someone fell through an open trapdoor to a cellar ( I think it was on a street outside a bar so it was an opening to the bar cellar. Everybody was invited to laugh but the comments under the video tore this to pieces and said that's possibly someone's brother or dad or uncle and definitely someone's son.
He's shocked and maybe injured - perhaps unconscious and heading for concussion. And we're meant to laugh at it?

BTW this would clearly be a lot more sinister if it was a woman or child

It's like the old saying. Tragedy is when I stub my toe, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.:eek:

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thank you, LIR. It does shake you up a bit. I sat on the ground and nursed my wounds, and a lady stopped her 4x4 and offered to help me get up. That was very sweet of her, but she didn't appreciate that at that particular moment I preferred to be sitting. There's a feeling amongst passers-by that they need to help by getting the person standing upright again ASAP, regardless of whether they are feeling a bit groggy.

Then, somebody else stopped his car too, which was kind of him, but basically I was okay. Just bleeding a bit and rather upset.

I'm really, really sorry to hear that you are knocking your teeth when you fall. That's decidedly un-funny and on a completely different scale compared to my man-wounds, which of course don't matter (because I'm a man, obviously, .... and if I'd gone through childbirth, etc ..... ).

Lol, don't worry, my tooth is 'dead' anyway. My mother opened a door on it a few months after it grew through and then horses have reared into it, and I have slipped on icey yards and now I faint, fall, collapse and just generally fall over a lot:D

I do a great thing which is faint but I usually surface as I am falling, so I laugh thinking its funny. (Little things make me laugh,:D) Usually I get my head up and my hand underneath to soften the fall, sometimes my tooth gets it


I know what you mean about people rushing you up. But you are right to stay sitting, Till you feel 'centred'. Otherwise you feel 'not right' for a while afterwards, .

Man wounds definitely count., Nasty grazes hurt, I don't often get grazed, because I tend to go straight down, because I tend to be going slowly.



As Paris is in the thread ATM, last time I was in Paris I also remember I fell ipn the hotel foyer, Spectacularly. Not my body though, It was really shocking rain and I had got very wet. (I was literally the only person out in the rain) and those silly polished marble hotel floors..........it was like bambi on ice. Only replace bambi with a baby rhino and its nearer the picture.

misskool

hottest day of the year and i've got jam on a rolling boil in my tiny kitchen.

thankfully it's gooseberry, my favorite.

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

It's a lovely language. I love their word for now. It's the time you can hold in your hand. Main-tenant. Pure poetry.

:rotfl:No Zag. You are not getting it.

It was an American...who speaks no lovely language except American. What I wrote is what he said, "my puppies are barking".

Absolutely no poetry whatsoever. A middle American who was working in California..to him that was another country. Great fun though.

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

...but I'm going to ask a doctor.

No need to rub it in!

(Tries not to start wondering about what you thought I would say...)