Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

"get me out of here!"

It can take over your whole life.... fearing every phone call. Meeting many Jobsworths along the way (e.g. accessing bank accounts) .... shedloads of new paperwork to sign, mail to look out for, decisions to make for somebody else.

And when you're not doing any of that you're dreading the next hurdle or surprise event.

PasturesNew

I was "lucky" with POA, parent agreed to it and was at a stage when parent would agree with anything anybody presented to them in the right way (still is). Parent has no opinions/decisions of their own, but "presents well", so when wheeled into the solicitor's for the interview to do a POA giving me authority, seemed perfectly sane..... but I knew was just answering the questions correctly, in line with the thinking I'd presented. Having said that, we had no idea at that stage how bad the dementia was, or what events were about to unfold.

Parent presents as a fully functioning set of brain cells..... it's only by knowing them that you realise most of it's cuckoo.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

....

Only one sane explanation: Your house is positioned on an ancient Portal to An Alien World. Maybe this explains the small/secret room - that's the transition room where they stored clothes/belongings when passing between worlds/timeslips

The only thing to ascertain now is whether you go to a different time or place.

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I asked, because I suddenly realised that you'd be looking for someone in a red swimming costume (thanks to my text) and with long fair hair (thanks to my photo) and I was in a wetsuit, with my hair plaited out of the way and smeared with what OH calls snake oil ("Masque to protect hair against sea and sun"), and wet to boot, so the colour of decaying seaweed.

It was very brave of me to venture onto the beach to start looking for complete strangers

I nearly walked away, assuming you'd decamped to the top of the cliff in the lap of luxury..... I didn't really expect to find you on the beach at that time due to the change on accommodation being thrust at you shortly before.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

In a way that reinforces Zag's point about A levels being too specialized

I found at O level you had to choose - and you couldn't choose what you wanted to do, but what was available.

Firstly, a school doesn't have every subject, so that restricts what might be available at O level.

We were given a grid and told to choose one subject from each row. Not all subjects were on every row. So, you might be wanting to study A, B and C but find there was A-or-B on the first row, B-or-C on the second row, but if you chose A on the first and B on the second C wasn't repeated anywhere else.

Then, when you got to the classes you might get kicked out. I got kicked out of two:

- Needlework: chosen as I'd run out of subjects I liked, so chose it. Kicked out as I'd never done it before, so lasted one term and was kicked out for knowing nothing when others had done 1-3 years of it already..

- English: chosen as it's a staple. Kicked out as the teacher hated me and refused to teach me. I was then put into a CSE class, where I got straight As, so was then moved again to an O level class with another teacher.

There were also not enough O levels to choose from, so I had to choose CSE for Typing/Office Practice as no O level existed.

Then there was Art - there was a good teacher and a bad teacher. Everybody wanted the good teacher, but a teacher stood up in the middle of the first class and said "everybody to the left of my arm go with Mr ...." - and I ended up with the bad teacher, who didn't teach and rarely came out of his cupboard. So we just cut out magazines and made mosaics and did no actual Art. So, that meant submitting a portfolio of old rubbish for a CSE. I would have been good at Art if I'd been standing the other end of the room and got the good teacher.

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

... we do it a lot for littlies)

In my day we planted a broad bean in a test tube...... and/or some mustard and cress

You then took that home for the school holidays, to watch.

I remember being jealous of my younger sister - we'd changed area/schools and she grew some crystals in her class!

michaels

There is some theory that you can get from any person on earth to any other using 7 'links' of people who know each other.

I was thinking that there 4 nice people who I am within 2 links of (ie we have an aquaintance in common) or 3 links (me - aquaintance - aquaintance - nice person). I suspect this probably proves that NP are not randomly selected from the population of the UK.

Any other NPs think they are only a few degrees from other NP?

My 4 are Lydia, NDG (and NDB), Viva and Spirit.

Edit: If anyone thinks this is too close to being personaly identifying please let me know and I can remove the names of the innocent.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

There is some theory that you can get from any person on earth to any other using 7 'links' of people who know each other.

I was thinking that there 4 nice people who I am within 2 links of (ie we have an aquaintance in common) or 3 links (me - aquaintance - aquaintance - nice person). I suspect this probably proves that NP are not randomly selected from the population of the UK.

Any other NPs think they are only a few degrees from other NP?

My 4 are Lydia, NDG (and NDB), Viva and Spirit.

Yes. Three I can think of.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes. Three I can think of.

Of course if your 3 and my 4 overlap then that links you and me :eek:

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

Come home to find DS1 has been offered the job he was waiting to hear about.:T
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I came home from the school run to a "Sorry, you have not been successful at this time" letter....