A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum

[Lioness_Heart]

Really? thats a bit weird! you were probably better off just smiling and nodding while secretly saying 'weirdo' in your head.

yeah... I'm a bit scared to go out now! Since the man across the road speaks to me in latin whenever he sees me!!

[Niamh]

yeah... I'm a bit scared to go out now! Since the man across the road speaks to me in latin whenever he sees me!!

Oh dear....! Could be worse.... you could be imagining what a suitcase full of raw(and possibly rotten) fish looks like!

[Lioness_Heart]

Oh dear....! Could be worse.... you could be imagining what a suitcase full of raw(and possibly rotten) fish looks like!

True... but now I AM imagining what a suitcase full of fish looks like. Odd thing to do... put fish in a suitcase...

Oh dear. What is my cat doing now???

[Koa]

On my journey home from Wales today I got stuck on the M6. traffic. and everybody in the other cars were picking their nose. ! seriously, id lost count how many drivers we went past or went past us who were picking their nose.
is that part of the driving practical test? how wisely u use your time when your not moving in your car?

You're in the UK?? I didn't know! I always think that everybody on this site is American, unless it's clearly stated otherwise.
I think I've been on the M6 once Everybody says it's terrible :P

[Niamh]

Ok so everyone knows that i work in a bookshop! So why is it that some people look around the shop see that its full of books and mags and then come over to you and ask for one of the following...(now this is a daily thing and makes us all laugh in work!)
-Stamps, (does this look like a post office?)
-Paracetamol (Pharmacy...duh!)
-Cigarettes ( you cant even smoke in the airport what do you need cigs for!)
and the best one is this!- tampons and sanitary towels! (yeah you'll find those between true crime and biography!)

After today...i thought i had to tell you!

[SleepyWitch]

Ok so everyone knows that i work in a bookshop! So why is it that some people look around the shop see that its full of books and mags and then come over to you and ask for one of the following...(now this is a daily thing and makes us all laugh in work!)
-Stamps, (does this look like a post office?)
-Paracetamol (Pharmacy...duh!)
-Cigarettes ( you cant even smoke in the airport what do you need cigs for!)
and the best one is this!- tampons and sanitary towels! (yeah you'll find those between true crime and biography!)

After today...i thought i had to tell you!

i know this was probably a rhetorical question. the utterly amazing and sobering answer is: they think it's one of those big drug stores that do books, like Boots or W.H. Smith

[Niamh]

well unlike W.H.Smiths we dont sell stationary or art supplies or craft stuff. We just sell Lots of books, magazines, newspapers, some sweets and some water.

In one of our shops, when it was small enough that you couldnt swing a cat, a young american girl walked all the way arount the shop, saw books and mag and newspapers came to the desk to me (back when i wasnt a suprevisor) and said 'do you sell tampons?' i replied by saying 'no we dont sell tampons because we are a bookshop, but there is a pharmacy back down on the main dutyfree area.' She nodded her head and said 'oh... so you dont have them then. And where can i get them?' i had to explain it to her again.

[Nightshade]

well we get do you sell stamps all the time and we are a library we barley sell anything.
so not smiths...hummmm ....Im narrowing it down niamh so one day Ill turn up at the airport and say guess what Im coming to see the fort of the fairy queen

You know how last year there was the strech of Nights wierdos? well met another one...or someone has written on my head stroke this. I was outside the trainstaion on monday annoyed because my bus wasnt running because its a bankholiday and at 5 in the afternoon these guys who were drunk, or off their head one nearly knocked me flying * I gave him the evils*. Then at the traffic light the guy that almost knocked me over comes over and does the messing hair thing, you know what you do to little kids? and goes hello.

hello?! I think its because Im so short but Im just the right height for this but its really getting annoyed

[Niamh]

I'll be in arrivals with a banner full of smilies!

[Niamh]

Oh and a picture of a fairy of course!

[Niamh]

you know how every now and then you see someone do something daft? Wel the traffic to work the other day was mental, and of course me being the lazy sod that i am, had decided to get a taxi to work. Well we were stuck at the end on a huge line of traffic, and of course my taxi driver was contemplating sneakilly taking a short cut up a one way system to get me to work, when all of a sudden what do we see out the left side of the car? Only a car driving along the footpath, trying to cut off the traffic! And he wasnt going slow by any means, even though he had to avoid street lamps and sign posts. He could of potentially ended up wrapped around a lamp post! Lunacy! He also went up the one way street.
Lets just say that we werent the only vehicule who were left gobsmacked by stupidity!

[SleepyWitch]

In one of our shops, when it was small enough that you couldnt swing a cat,

cruelty towards animals, tut tut... I know your sort cat-swinging.. is it a sport like caber-tossing in Scotland?

hm, nothing weird ever happens to me...
last term, I taught a tutorial on Thursdays 1-2 p.m. My boss (who taught the course my tutorial went along with)was Ms. M. but lots of other lecturers taught the same course, including Ms S.
From 12 to 1, Mr K's tutor used the same room i was in from 1 to 2.
so the usual schedule was like this:
Mr K's tutorial (= another girl), Thur 12-1
Ms M's tutorial (=me) Thur 1-2
Ms S.s tutorial (=a totally different girl on a totally different day in a totally different room)


this one time, lots of students i didn't know showed up at 1 o'clock. Mr. K's tutor was just leaving.

enter confused students
students Ms S.s told us the tutorial would be from 12- 1 this week
me which tutorial? the one for her course? this is the one for Ms M.s course.
students Ms S.s said it would be on Thursday, 12-1 this week.
me it's one o'clock. If you were going to attend the 12- 1 tutorial, you've just missed it.
students Ms S. said it would be at 12 today.
me are you in Ms S.'s course?
students Yes.
me Ok. This is the tutorial for Ms M.'s course. You can stay here. But it's one o'clock now. If you're looking for the 12-1 tutorial you're too late.
students She said the tutorial would be on Thursday this week.
me What exactly did Ms. S. say? Did she say her tutor's tutorial would be taught in this room on Thursday for this one week? Or did she say "You can go to Ms M's tutor's class this week, your tutor is ill, she will be back next week." This is Ms M's tutorial. It's always on Thursday. If you are looking for Mr. K's tutorial, it's just finished. That's the one at 12.
students er?
me Ok, anyway. You can stay here.
students She said it's at 12.
.
.
.
*ya, whatever*
what on earth where they doing there at 1 p.m. anyway when they thought it was at 12?
why didn't Ms S. mail me to tell me she'd send her students to my tutorial???

[Niamh]

cruelty towards animals, tut tut... I know your sort cat-swinging.. is it a sport like caber-tossing in Scotland?

hm, nothing weird ever happens to me...
last term, I taught a tutorial on Thursdays 1-2 p.m. My boss (who taught the course my tutorial went along with)was Ms. M. but lots of other lecturers taught the same course, including Ms S.
From 12 to 1, Mr K's tutor used the same room i was in from 1 to 2.
so the usual schedule was like this:
Mr K's tutorial (= another girl), Thur 12-1
Ms M's tutorial (=me) Thur 1-2
Ms S.s tutorial (=a totally different girl on a totally different day in a totally different room)


this one time, lots of students i didn't know showed up at 1 o'clock. Mr. K's tutor was just leaving.

enter confused students
students Ms S.s told us the tutorial would be from 12- 1 this week
me which tutorial? the one for her course? this is the one for Ms M.s course.
students Ms S.s said it would be on Thursday, 12-1 this week.
me it's one o'clock. If you were going to attend the 12- 1 tutorial, you've just missed it.
students Ms S. said it would be at 12 today.
me are you in Ms S.'s course?
students Yes.
me Ok. This is the tutorial for Ms M.'s course. You can stay here. But it's one o'clock now. If you're looking for the 12-1 tutorial you're too late.
students She said the tutorial would be on Thursday this week.
me What exactly did Ms. S. say? Did she say her tutor's tutorial would be taught in this room on Thursday for this one week? Or did she say "You can go to Ms M's tutor's class this week, your tutor is ill, she will be back next week." This is Ms M's tutorial. It's always on Thursday. If you are looking for Mr. K's tutorial, it's just finished. That's the one at 12.
students er?
me Ok, anyway. You can stay here.
students She said it's at 12.
.
.
.
*ya, whatever*
what on earth where they doing there at 1 p.m. anyway when they thought it was at 12?
why didn't Ms S. mail me to tell me she'd send her students to my tutorial???

Talking about confusion Sleepy! i agree. You should have been informed and i also think those students should have asked, or used there common sense and noted the time!

[papayahed]

It took so long to find this thread I forgot what my funny thing was...

[Niamh]

well when you remember let us know!