Strange fruit I’ve encountered this week
From my son:
-Can I tell you what I want for Christmas?
-Sure.
-A carnivorous plant.
From the taxi driver:
Driver: Women don’t make good historians.
Me: Why not?
Driver: Because they can’t memorize things.
Me: Oh yeah? How come they remember a shopping list of 20 items or more?
From the same taxi driver (he’s full of wisdom):
Driver: Polish people have low IQ.
Me: How can you say that!!?
Driver: My wife is Polish.
From man on the bus:
Ticket inspector: You mean you don’t have a ticket?
Man (exasperated): I don’t, I don’t!
Ticket inspector: You will have to pay a fine sir.
Man: No, you will pay a fine for all the times I had one and you never checked.
From credit card salesperson on the phone:
Me: Do you know you are violating the law for personal data protection when you call me at home to sell me credit cards?
Salesperson: We certainly don’t. We don’t know WHO you are.
Me: But you called me by my last name.
Salesperson: But we don’t know what you look like.
October 11th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
hahaha — that man on the bus was actually very clever
And the credit card salesperson truly pathetic. But in a funny way…
Your son just wants somebody in the house to actually eat meat! Perhaps?
Truly, you take too many taxis. Have you considered cycling…?
October 11th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
When i take a taxi it’s because I carry lots of things and going really far. I give english classes on Saturday morning and on that particular day I carry more than 10 books. That’s when i’ll take a taxi. The bicycle wouldn’t be an option for that particular day because Athens is huge and the classes are far away. xx
October 11th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
ROFL. you ARE surrounded by weirdos!!
where are you going to come up with a carnivorous plant? will a venus fly trap do, you think?
October 11th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
There are lots of carnivorous plants in my Filip’s Super Mario game… Just thought I’d mention it
October 11th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hahaha … yep, very weird !! The man on the bus, and the credit card salesman ones were hilarious. Hmmm, a carnivorous plant … they are actually fascinating things … I had one once (and yep, I am very weird !!).
Hope you are well, Chloe.
Take care, hugs, Meow xx
October 11th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
I’m thinking if you get your son a big enough carnivorous plant, maybe he can feed it the taxi driver and other weird people?
October 11th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
My Favorite…
“No, you will pay a fine for all the times I had one and you never checked.”
What a loony!
October 11th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
I was going to laugh but the last one just boggled me so much…I’m just shaking my head in disbelief!
What is going on in Athens? Is it the water from the tap?
Yes, I remember the killer plants in my Super Mario too, like Scholiast mentioned
October 11th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
That’s a much longer phone conversation with credit card people than I evevr have. I like the taxi driver.
October 11th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
I’ve begun to assume that everyone is weird. That way, I’m never surprised. And when someone behaves “normally”, I feel happy.
Then again, who defines what is weird and what is normal? Maybe I’m weird! Horrors!
Seriously, thanks for the smile. The picture is divine, too!
October 11th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
hehehe
the world’s full of weirdos. what you don’t know yet is this: your post made me chuckle for the first time today.
thank you!
xx
October 11th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
you have great encounters. Keep me in speeches.
Do you think your son would like a worm farm instead of a carnivorous plant? he could learn a little about recycling at a very basic level.
October 12th, 2007 at 3:38 am
Chloe:Here is a company in Oregon that sells packets of carniverous plant seeds.
http://seedrack.com/carnivorous.html?gclid=CLj30oCOiI8CFSjKhgodOjZxkg
If it’s hard for you to order them where you are, let me know and I’ll get them and send them to you.
I would encourage that boy in his botanical interests.
These plants can be lovely, too. Every once in a while I see them for sale in the local market. Maybe I should ask if they eat fruit flies!
October 12th, 2007 at 7:39 am
Did the CC person really say that?
October 12th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Hattie - I’ve learned that ‘fruit flies’ are the nice form of ‘fag hag’ — and as I’m one I wouldn’t want to be eaten by one of those…
Chloe, dear — do you know anything about watermelon plants…? (As we’re talking botany anyway…) Filip planted one and it’s growing wild, but UPwards. Wouldn’t it need to grow .. sideways, or something? Melons would break everything now, wouldn’t it…?
Oh well, just thought I’d ask someone in a country where καÏποÏζια actually grow…
October 12th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I recommend getting an N. rajah plant for your son. It can eat small mammals and reptiles!
Uh…How does the credit card salesman that called you know what you look like? That’s disturbing.
October 12th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
You just look way too nice and all the taxi drivers want to talk to you…Look mean!
Hugs,
Connie
October 12th, 2007 at 10:17 pm
I love the man on the bus-that’s great!
October 12th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
What I really meant to say was that your stories keep me in stitches. Perhaps I should join you in some of your Saturday morning English classes.
October 13th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Brilliant!
October 13th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
I prefer weirdos!
Does this taxi driver base his ideas about all women on just his wife? I wonder what she has to say about taxi drivers?
Could you convince a carnivorous plant to become a vegetarian, and if so, would that make it cannibalistic?
(See…? I guess I’m just another weirdo.)
October 14th, 2007 at 12:30 am
Love you Sugar Plum!
Blessings
Love Jeanne
October 14th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
omg I was seriously LOL! Too funny.
October 14th, 2007 at 11:55 pm
god bless stupidity.
October 15th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Ha-ha! Your stories are perfect! Have in mind that you can buy carnivorous plants at flower exhibitions in Greece around May. I suggest you wouldn’t buy it now, because they live on flies and bugs which are a bit rare during the winter, so your plant will probably die.
October 15th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Hilarious! And I think every young boy should have a Venus Fly Trap at some stage.
I would like you to know that I credited you as the inspiration for a picture I currently have on my blog.
October 16th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
hey…i want a carnivorous plant for Christmas!!!
October 17th, 2007 at 12:05 am
unbelievable! : )
October 17th, 2007 at 9:51 am
(waves hello from Australia)
October 18th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Hahahahaha! Love the bus one!
October 23rd, 2007 at 2:53 am
u on facebook?/ i love my profile pic there. it reminds me of YOU
October 27th, 2007 at 5:19 am
Apples, oranges and bannas are strange to you? What are your normal fruits then?