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Subject: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: LadyJean Date: 31 Dec 11 - 08:58 PM I was in the parking lot, outside KMart, on my way to my car, when a man asked me where I'd gotten my purse. I told him, Land's End, bought on sale, last winter. It's an undisinguished bag, hobo style, brown suede, mid sized, a few spots, and I think a cat may have upchucked on it. But he offered me $50 for it. I could see no reason not to sell my purse, so I dumped the contents into a plastic bag and took his money. I paid lesss than $50 for it. So I made money on the deal. I just wonder what the woman in his life said, when he came home with a second hand handbag that he'd paid $50 for. Weirdness follows me everywhere. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: gnu Date: 31 Dec 11 - 09:19 PM So many possibilities. Obviously, number one, he's nuts. But, surely, he must have had some other motive? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Alice Date: 31 Dec 11 - 09:27 PM That's kind of a freaky event. I would have run into the store if a stranger started asking about buying my purse! You're brave. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Sandra in Sydney Date: 31 Dec 11 - 11:38 PM me too, I would have thoughe he was planning to steal it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: katlaughing Date: 31 Dec 11 - 11:51 PM me,too |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Elmore Date: 31 Dec 11 - 11:51 PM Maybe he forgot his wedding anniversary like I did, God help me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Jack the Sailor Date: 31 Dec 11 - 11:56 PM hey lady, Don't want to be a nag But can you please tell me where you got your bag. Its brown and smooth and oh so pretty Like my woman had when we lived in the city. I'm sitting her listening to Steevie Ray Vaughn Thinking about the bag you had on. I think it would give me luck If you would sell it too me for just 50 bucks! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: JohnInKansas Date: 01 Jan 12 - 01:34 AM I just wonder what the woman in his life said, when he came home with a second hand handbag that he'd paid $50 for. Maybe it goes nicely with one of his own dresses(?), that he only wears when he "dresses" to go out. John |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Ebbie Date: 01 Jan 12 - 01:46 AM Buddy Tabor, musician from Juneau, Alaska, says that he has always attracted loonies, that he has total strangers follow him for a chance to tell him their life stories. At the very least, LadyJean, I suspect that you are one of those people who are perceived as approachable. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: ranger1 Date: 01 Jan 12 - 02:22 AM Heck, I'd have sold it to him, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: VirginiaTam Date: 01 Jan 12 - 05:21 AM check that 50 dollar bill for authenticity. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 01 Jan 12 - 06:03 AM If it had been me, I'd have told him to 'go away'! He could so easily have grabbed things from your hands. It's sad we can't trust any strangers nowadays, but you have to be so careful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Richard Bridge Date: 01 Jan 12 - 06:15 AM My daughter alleges that her boyfriend and I are the worst two nut magnets she knows - that we always finish up talking to a nutter in a pub or on a train or on a bus or in a queue. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 01 Jan 12 - 06:22 AM You probably have a kind face, Richard. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: VirginiaTam Date: 01 Jan 12 - 08:19 AM like draws like ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Richard Bridge Date: 01 Jan 12 - 11:40 AM Eminently plausible VT. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Ebbie Date: 01 Jan 12 - 03:22 PM A segue here: "My daughter alleges that her boyfriend and I are the worst two nut magnets she knows" reminds me that we tend to marry our father or our mother. I am aware that my daughter married me. Whether or not they are aware of it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: SINSULL Date: 01 Jan 12 - 06:01 PM I too am a nutter magnet. Makes life very interesting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Ebbie Date: 01 Jan 12 - 06:04 PM Let me tell you my life story, Sins. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Bobert Date: 01 Jan 12 - 06:41 PM I, too, am a magi-nut... They just gravitate to me... Glad I like weird people or it would be bothersome... B~ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: gnu Date: 01 Jan 12 - 08:26 PM Sometimes, it's good to lead. I can think of a few 'Catters that do. Thank goodness! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: VirginiaTam Date: 02 Jan 12 - 03:34 AM Maybe it is the tendency to make eye (I) contact with strangers. This would of course be due to innate (and as yet un-jaded) trust which makes us attractive to people of peculiar dispositions. I think that is what first attracted Richard Bridge. At a session I was very carefully watching his hands as he played mandolin wondering if since RA in wrists had halted playing guitar if perhaps I could play mando. He struck conversation which led to loaning me (a total stranger) a mandolin to practice on. So which of us is the nutter in this situation? Having said that, I have now loaned him my Morgan Monroe Rocky Top mando as he is looking to replace rather than repair his. Now which of us is the nutter? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Dave Hanson Date: 02 Jan 12 - 08:33 AM It's like being on a bus, there are 20 vacant seats and when the nutter gets on, you just know he's gonna sit next to you, and when he sits next to someone else you think ' whats wrong with me ? ' Dave H |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 02 Jan 12 - 12:36 PM Talking to 'nutters' is just plain kindness and humanity. They usually need some contact and conversation. As long as you don't put yourself in danger, it's a nice gesture to chat to them for a bit, why not? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Charmion Date: 02 Jan 12 - 03:24 PM Over the years, I have gathered much useful information from the nutters and other strangers who just up and start talking to me. I used to think it was because I was a cute young blonde, but the rate of stranger-attraction increased steadily as I grew older. Now that I'm 57 years old, I can find myself in conversation anywhere, with just about anyone. VT is right; it has a lot to do with eye contact -- if you look at people as if they are already friends, in a few minutes they will be nattering away if they have half a chance. It happens most consistently on public transit, but also in line anywhere, especially the checkout in the supermarket. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Ebbie Date: 02 Jan 12 - 03:28 PM The funny thing is that my daughter used to be mortified at the easy conversations I got into with strangers- now she does the same thing. *g* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: GUEST,999 Date: 02 Jan 12 - 03:35 PM Same here, Charmion, and I ain't a cute blonde. I collect strays, and that has always surprised me because mostly I don't like people. I don't like animals either, and they come near me: cats, dogs, skunks, horses no one can get near, that kind of thing. I'm at an age where I will take up mumbling in public because most people will not be surprised by such behaviour, and because they think you're nutzo, they leave you alone. I'll let y'all know if it works. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Ebbie Date: 02 Jan 12 - 11:51 PM "mumbling in public"? These days we would just think you were on a mobile phone. Ya cain't win. :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: fat B****rd Date: 03 Jan 12 - 09:17 AM Bruce, you're not a cute blonde ?!. After all this time. A confession. Some years ago I was on a train from Grantham to Boston (UK). There were plenty of seats but at some rural stop a person in a huge parka and unlaced boots got on and sat opposite me. The smell of something like dead fish was awful and he/she played Dr. Hook's Gretaest hits at full volume on a Walkman. The last straw came when he/she blew his/her nose into his/her hand with predictable results. I finally got up and moved as he/she looked at ME curiously. I have always tried to be kind and tolerant of eye contact etc with strangers but there is/was a limit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Charmion Date: 03 Jan 12 - 01:51 PM Well, yes, that sort of thing does tend to happen around me, too, Friend Fat. But the proportion of nutters to normal humans is actually quite low. The ones I find truly hard to take are the nice middle-aged women who don't travel much so they plunk themselves down next to me in airports and then start telling me about attending their brother's third wedding even though they really liked his first wife but he divorced her anyway and then married a trophy wife who cheated on him so he had to divorce her too. Or the nice men in restaurants who need to tell me about their chemo treatments, or the chatty fellows on the train who hear my Canadian accent (so flatly obvious in Europe) and insist on sharing the details of their travels in America. These folks usually ignore Edmund. I guess he looks too sternly masculine, or perhaps masculinely stern. Bruce, I feel for you; really, I do. You probably have a cute blond alter ego or astral projection that keeps its pockets full of carrots for the horses no one else can get near and sardines for the cats and skunks who normally have the common sense to avoid people. No amount of curmugeonly public mumbling will offset that kind of irresistibility, so you should probably just get used to it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 03 Jan 12 - 01:55 PM Anyone any ideas how to detach from people who buttonhole you and talk you to death, eg at parties or gatherings? (Not necess. nutters, but painfully boring) I find myself losing the will to live sometimes, but I never know how to politely get away! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: gnu Date: 03 Jan 12 - 03:10 PM Eliza... I used to be polite to the point of same but now I simply put my hand on my belly and say, "Oh my. Where's the can?." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Ed T Date: 03 Jan 12 - 04:28 PM Did it match his shoes? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Bert Date: 03 Jan 12 - 04:33 PM ...But the proportion of nutters to normal humans is actually quite low... I dunno about that. Look at all the nutters who vote republican;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: GUEST,999 Date: 03 Jan 12 - 04:54 PM Eliza, I do much as gnu does: "S'cuse me, gotta pee/urinate/go bathroom/etc." If the person keeps talking, I walk away. FatB, sorry buddy. Charmion, thanks. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 04 Jan 12 - 09:07 AM Good suggestions, but I can image the bore waiting there for me as I emerge from the loo! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: GUEST,Eliza Date: 04 Jan 12 - 09:09 AM My forthright, late friend never suffered in this way. She just used to come out with "I didn't come 'ere ter be bored ter death!" and walk off. Funnily enough, no-one seemed to be offended! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Lunacy Follows Me From: Charmion Date: 04 Jan 12 - 06:24 PM When you figure out a polite way of escaping from boring farts at parties, Eliza, you will have solved one of history's most challenging social problems. What I want to know is: how do so many boring farts get invited to parties in the first place? |
