Toots* wrote: » Or the friend asking will you shift his friend who's about a foot shorter than you and can't understand why you'd say no!!
naughtyfox wrote: » How could anyone reach down for them??!
BrooklynSmith wrote: » Admittedly it wasn't too hard for me considering I was 5"2 (sadly still am) but you'd still find lads who seemed to be closer to 3"0.
BrooklynSmith wrote: » This was literally 99.9% of the guys I mean what did they expect you to do,sit him up on a stool or give him a ladder or something :P
endacl wrote: » I was 6'4" in school. If I'd had the cash for coke and tayto, you'd have needed to be in platforms. Serious platforms...
naughtyfox wrote: » I was 5"6 and wore 6 inch heels in sixth year and then I wonder why boys were scared of me...
endacl wrote: » I'm still kinda scared of you...
naughtyfox wrote: » But im soo sweet and innocent.... Dont be scared...
endacl wrote: » It never ends well when people say that!!!! :eek::eek::eek:
naughtyfox wrote: » And you know from experience.. Think you should share that story....
endacl wrote: » Well. This one time. At band camp...
naughtyfox wrote: » You played with some flutes....
endacl wrote: » If you choose to go with comedy, I do have a funny flute-maintenance related story.....
naughtyfox wrote: » Im going to go with comedy as im to innocent to pick up on any other meanings...............
naughtyfox wrote: » Laughing my head off way to funny!! Im going to assume that you got nowhere with the aussie girl and never went into the shop again due to your constipation problems and having to oil your flute!!!!!
endacl wrote: » Ah, Aussie girl was never a notion anyway. I'd been very happily not-married to the same lovely lady for years at that point. But no, I never went back in, and that chemist has closed now. Never got the chance to explain things to poor beetroot-red Nicole. I imagine she's telling a slightly different version of that story to folks in Melbourne ever since!
naughtyfox wrote: » But the brightside was that your flute was unconstipated!! Poor girl is probably scarred for life....
endacl wrote: » Hey, everybody needs stories to tell! Wanna hear a good one involving a 'spoonerism'? Another true story involving a suddenly silent room? A pub this time...
endacl wrote: » Right. Well. Some years ago I bought a flute made by a maker in Bray, Desi Seery. Lovely fella, if a bit rough around the edges. He makes traditional wooden flutes. He also makes them from a plastic-like material called Delrin. Looks, feels and acts like wood, but much harder wearing etc... Mine was one of those. Anyway, 'this one time' (:D) i was chatting to him, and I asked about maintenance. His advice was to run a bit of liquid parrafin through it every week or so, just to keep the bore smooth, fill any imperfections etc. So that's what I decided to do. So, on the way home I popped into our local chemist for a bottle o' the shtuff. Now, as it happens, I am an idiot. I never thought of pouring the excess back into the bottle when I was finished, and so the following week I was back to the chemist again. For another half litre bottle of liquid paraffin. And again the following week. And the week after that. You see a pattern emerging, I trust...? Now, in the chemist worked a young Australian girl. Young. Pretty. Very friendly. Kinda knew her to say hello to after all this liquid paraffin purchasing. About three months of liquid paraffin purchasing. Anyway, this one time I was in and the shop was quite busy. She gestured me aside for a quick word and said in a concerned tone, and I quote "I've noticed you've been buying liquid paraffin for some time now, and that it doesn't seem to be working for your 'condition'. There are other, more effective remedies available, if you'd like me to talk you through them?" I obviously looked quite confused at this point. Because I was. She picked up on this. "For your ..... constipation" she almost whispered. I took a split second to think about this. I honestly had no idea that liquid paraffin was traditionally used as a laxative. Used as a laxative by my granny's generation though! Obviously not wanting this pretty young aussie to think a had been battling unsuccessfully with chronic constipation for the previous three months, I loudly blurted out, just at one of those moments you get when a busy shop suddenly falls silent, "Nicole, I'm not constipated. I use it to oil my flute!!". Shop erupts. Nicole turns the deepest shade of red I've ever seen, and I only realise when I'm back home oiling my flute, how that must have sounded. My funny flute story.
naughtyfox wrote: » Why not.... And you still havent posted your frist shift story.....