Dukat
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Just because I'm bored!
I want to hear those stories you people have about events that just dont ever happen in normal day to day life! You know, like when something so crazy happens you have to pinch yourself to see if you're not dreaming, there will probably be some good ones here seeing as half the regulars here are wierdos!
Seeing as I'm one of them, I'll go first!
I was on holiday in majorca (sp?), first time I'd been abroad really, unless you could scotland! I quite enjoyed it, was interesting to see other places and other cultures, and I loved the weather!
Anyway, we were out one night doing a bit of shopping, me, my mum and dad, and my brother. We'd been out a few hours, all pretty routine stuff, until we went into a cornershop like place (like a spar) to get a snack. All of a sudden this old woman jumps up from behind the counter and runs over to me and shouts "BLANKO BLANKO!!!", needless to say, I'm not very tanned, I used to be a little worse, but I didnt think I was a vampire or anything! so this woman proceeds to jump up and down (literally, she was actually hopping) and point at me and babble on in what I assume was spanish, occassionally repeating the words "BLANKO!! BLANKO!!" really really loudly. I didnt know if I was in trouble tbh, she seemed to be ignoring everyone else in the shop (some of which I thought were about as lightly complexioned as I was ), until one of the assitants in the shop came up to me and said in halting english that its ok, and that the woman was just saying she was suprised how pale I was, the old woman eventually calmed down a bit and went over to a shelf and gave me a box of pingles (which made my day), my parents chatted with the assistant a bit, then we left and carried on shopping.
To this day though my mum still laughs about it, it was just so wierd, I cant help wondering if the old woman gave a packet of pringles to every pale person who went into the shop, or if she was from out of town, or what, but it was just so strange, I wasnt treated any different by anyone else I saw in the entire two weeks I was in majorca apart from by this one old lady, it was really really strange
Anyway, I was just reading what Cho said about vampires in another thread and I remembered this, I had to make a thread because there's got to be hundreds of strange and slightly crazy stories out there, seeing as I'm probably the least-well travelled person on FH!
So post you're crazy stories here, I'm expecting great things from you lot!
I want to hear those stories you people have about events that just dont ever happen in normal day to day life! You know, like when something so crazy happens you have to pinch yourself to see if you're not dreaming, there will probably be some good ones here seeing as half the regulars here are wierdos!
Seeing as I'm one of them, I'll go first!
I was on holiday in majorca (sp?), first time I'd been abroad really, unless you could scotland! I quite enjoyed it, was interesting to see other places and other cultures, and I loved the weather!
Anyway, we were out one night doing a bit of shopping, me, my mum and dad, and my brother. We'd been out a few hours, all pretty routine stuff, until we went into a cornershop like place (like a spar) to get a snack. All of a sudden this old woman jumps up from behind the counter and runs over to me and shouts "BLANKO BLANKO!!!", needless to say, I'm not very tanned, I used to be a little worse, but I didnt think I was a vampire or anything! so this woman proceeds to jump up and down (literally, she was actually hopping) and point at me and babble on in what I assume was spanish, occassionally repeating the words "BLANKO!! BLANKO!!" really really loudly. I didnt know if I was in trouble tbh, she seemed to be ignoring everyone else in the shop (some of which I thought were about as lightly complexioned as I was ), until one of the assitants in the shop came up to me and said in halting english that its ok, and that the woman was just saying she was suprised how pale I was, the old woman eventually calmed down a bit and went over to a shelf and gave me a box of pingles (which made my day), my parents chatted with the assistant a bit, then we left and carried on shopping.
To this day though my mum still laughs about it, it was just so wierd, I cant help wondering if the old woman gave a packet of pringles to every pale person who went into the shop, or if she was from out of town, or what, but it was just so strange, I wasnt treated any different by anyone else I saw in the entire two weeks I was in majorca apart from by this one old lady, it was really really strange
Anyway, I was just reading what Cho said about vampires in another thread and I remembered this, I had to make a thread because there's got to be hundreds of strange and slightly crazy stories out there, seeing as I'm probably the least-well travelled person on FH!
So post you're crazy stories here, I'm expecting great things from you lot!