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« Reply #1215 on: 09:53:44, 01-10-2008 » |
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t-p - men don't do small-talk. They're not like us girls. Hence the sarcasm.  I always enjoy the difference between men and women when out jogging (no Tommo, I mean in addition to that, or those  ). Two men will just grunt every so often and maybe go in for a bit of competitive spitting (it's a boys' thing). Two women jogging together will gasp for breath in between a near constant ... 'No, it was on the Thursday come to think of it <gasp> because I had to cancel my hair appointment on the Tuesday, didn't I, because of the cat's boil as I told you. Anyway, I said to her, 'Look, I'm sorry, I don't care who you are I'm just not prepared to take that tone of voice from anyone.' <gasp> That shut her up for a bit I can tell you. She hadn't been spoken to like that before. Maureen, you know Maureen, wears blue but it doesn't suit her <gasp>, she said to me afterwards that the same thing had happened in Planning and Development. <gasp> Anyway, after that ... " |
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« Reply #1216 on: 09:58:13, 01-10-2008 » |
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As usual George, you have perfectly summed up the situation.   Well I can't walk up to the hairdressers in this. I don't mind the actual gale-force wind, it's the danger of being hit by flying debris that's the problem. ( Shut up you lot. I'm not going to be clobbered by flying tiles just to please you - especially Ollie... ) |
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« Reply #1217 on: 10:00:12, 01-10-2008 » |
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Morning all. I've been very self indulgent today, lying in bed with a cuppa, posting on the laptop. Pixie came briefly into the room - she hasn't been into my bedroom much (mainly because I keep the door shut) - and started walking over the piles of minidiscs lying next to the bed, but she's vanished again now. Correction, she's back again  |
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« Reply #1218 on: 10:16:16, 01-10-2008 » |
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« Reply #1219 on: 10:26:22, 01-10-2008 » |
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I had a wonderful hairdresser called Luciano but he went back to Sicily and since then haven't found anyone who was such a good cutter  Blowing a gale here as well and sporadic showers. Taking the day off work and hopefully will make some sense of my untidy pile of paperwork. |
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« Reply #1220 on: 10:38:26, 01-10-2008 » |
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Well you haven't got away with it as far as I'm concerned George.  |
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« Reply #1221 on: 11:11:37, 01-10-2008 » |
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Women are competative too. Some of my friends are very competative.
They will tell you that everything they have is better than what you have: their car is better, their husband is better (much better than anybodies and he loves her so much), her children are better, etc, etc, etc.
I have american friend. I don't see her now, but when we lived close she would tell me how much her husband loves her and how he was afraid something might happen to her. She told me that she can do with him whatever she wants. I had a mental picture of him sleeping before the door on a small carpet (like a dog) to protect her in case some intruder would come. But what if an intruder would come through the window. Somehow she maintained that he slept in the foot of a bed for her protection. I always found it curious.
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« Reply #1222 on: 13:10:58, 01-10-2008 » |
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I had a wonderful hairdresser called Luciano but he went back to Sicily and since then haven't found anyone who was such a good cutter I need to get my hair cut soon as well. I realised just how long it was since it was last cut when I walked past the place on Saturday and they had moved premises in August! I suppose an advantage to having long hair is that it's not too critical if you leave it a few months but it's getting straggly at the ends now. I'm afraid all the hairdressers where I go are astonishingly boring. I have to bite my lip to prevent myself from saying "Look, let's be honest here. You don't care whether I'm going on holiday this year any more than I care whether you are or not. If you're not going to say anything interesting then please don't say anything at all." I have to be in the right mood for inane chatter. Of course, you can and may well say "Do we really care if your hair is getting straggly at the ends? If you're not going to write anything interesting.... "  |
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« Reply #1223 on: 14:30:19, 01-10-2008 » |
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I feel much the same about chatty hairdressers as I do about chatty cab drivers. I just want them cut my hair or drive the cab and forget the natter. I'm happy to tip for a bit of silence. This may explain why my hair is so long! |
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« Reply #1224 on: 14:34:59, 01-10-2008 » |
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I feel much the same about chatty hairdressers as I do about chatty cab drivers. I just want them cut my hair or drive the cab and forget the natter. I'm happy to tip for a bit of silence. This may explain why my hair is so long! I'm so glad it's not just me! I'm very inconsistent in my tendencies to chat though. I'll quite happily get into conversations at the supermarket check out or with random people at a bus stop, but less inclined to do so when you might feel obliged because you're trapped in a situation with someone. |
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« Reply #1225 on: 14:39:25, 01-10-2008 » |
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Of course sometimes it can backfire ... 'Oh look, there's my bus! Lovely talking to you. Bye'. 'What a coincidence. That's my bus as well. We can sit together'. 'Oh'. |
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« Reply #1226 on: 14:48:00, 01-10-2008 » |
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I have american friend. I don't see her now, but when we lived close she would tell me how much her husband loves her and how he is afraid something might happen to her. I had a mental picture of him sleeping before the door on a small carpet (like a dog) to protect her if some intruder will be coming. I always found it curious.
That made me laugh a lot, t-p. I was about to say that some men do quite enjoy small talk (especially male hairdressers called Luciano from Sicily ...), but actually I think I'm like Ruby: I'm quite happy to have random conversations with people in all sorts of weird places but when I'm stuck in a hairdresser's chair I tend to clam up completely. I used to worry a great deal that hairdressers would find me deeply weird because of this, but these days they seem quite happy not to talk and so do I so everything proceeds happily in near-silence. I do like listening in on the conversation in the next chair though. And yes, I recognise Mort's bus-stop dilemma all too well! |
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« Reply #1227 on: 14:52:20, 01-10-2008 » |
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I do like listening in on the conversation in the next chair though. Ah, now you're talking! If you see what I mean ... |
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« Reply #1228 on: 14:58:26, 01-10-2008 » |
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I was about to say that some men do quite enjoy small talk (especially male hairdressers called Luciano from Sicily ...)
That made me laugh tinners! He was young, gay and very camp and a source of endless gossip!! He left with his boyfriend to work on the cruise ships, returned briefly to the next town to work (and everyone followed him there) and then they went back to Taormina to open up their own salon. |
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« Reply #1229 on: 15:04:07, 01-10-2008 » |
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And yes, I recognise Mort's bus-stop dilemma all too well!
That happens to me more on trains. Recently I had to pretend to have a reserved seat to avoid exactly that happening! As it happens I had quite the opposite experience the other week. I got chatting to a really sweet lady from Minnesota on the train and I was absolutely gutted when she got off at Wakefield. She was very softly spoken and just infectiously cheerful. I'm quite jealous of all her friends. |
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