My new game!

[Wabbit]

Before I explaine about my new game, I had better explaine something about the U.K because I am guessing this is something particular to here! If it's not, then it will be interesting to find what other places do this!

Here in the U.K when you go to any major supermarket you will find phones on the wall. Thease phones have a free and direct line to a taxi company so you can call them and they will pick you up outside the supermarket ( with your shopping ) and take you to you home. When you pick up the phone they ask your name. When the taxi arrives they call out your name and you go to your taxi. They have to do this because there will be quite a few people waiting and nobody would know who was first and so on.

OK, now for my new game which I did yesterday when I did my shopping! My game is to give them a name of a famous writer. Yesterday, I had to suppress a huge grin when my driver out out of his taxi and shouted... ERNEST HEMINGWAY!

I think next week I will be Gabriel Garcia Marquez!

 

[Rogue]

Really!? (taxis to take you home from grocery shopping)

Thats awesome and seems to be a lot of fun! Do you think it would work with J.K.Rowling or other really widley known British authors?

Unfortunatley we don't have that!

 

[Wabbit]

Hmmm, I will try it with Rowling and let you know!

I did enjoy being Hemingway for a moment! lol Every week I can be a famous author!

Yeah, the taxi thing is pretty handy since I don't drive and really hate the bus

 

[dele]

It's similar over here, but instead of phones on the wall, we just ask the girl at the customer service desk to call a cab for us. But I never give them my real name because the cab drivers always pronounce it wrong, or they assume that they're picking up a middle eastern man and won't believe that it's actually for me.

That's a good idea Wabbit, I think I'll try Jules Verne or Clive Cussler next time I bring my boyfriend shopping. Or maybe Stephen King. Now that would be funny!

 

[lies]

Dammit, we don't have that!

 

[Thelma]

Funny

What a funny game to think of. Really, some people's ignorance of literature makes us feel a bit strange, as if we loved a useless thing, with no particular role in real life. Some journalists went undercover once on a tv channel in my country to catch some fake astrologists that pretended to forsee people's future. The journalists introduced themselves by using names of famous characters, it was really funny and efficient.
Next time, try Bond, James Bond.

 

[bobbyburns]

next time say, "my name is peanut".

 

[bobbyburns]

or woozle, or something ridiculous ...

 

[quotagirl]

Howzabout...
Ivana Mann?

(kidding)
or
I.P. Freely?
Who Flung Poo?
gads....... those jokes are SO old............

 

[Wabbit]

What a funny game to think of. Really, some people's ignorance of literature makes us feel a bit strange, as if we loved a useless thing, with no particular role in real life. Some journalists went undercover once on a tv channel in my country to catch some fake astrologists that pretended to forsee people's future. The journalists introduced themselves by using names of famous characters, it was really funny and efficient.
Next time, try Bond, James Bond.

Yeah, you are right that a lot of people are totally ignorant of literature and that is partly why it's fun and why I like to do it

next time say, "my name is peanut".

or woozle, or something ridiculous ...

lol That would be funny but I think I will stick with the lit theme Anyway, if I say something TOO wild then the taxi company will be on to me and just not send a taxi because they think I am messing them around!

quotagirl Howzabout...
Ivana Mann?

(kidding)
or
I.P. Freely?
Who Flung Poo?
gads....... those jokes are SO old............

Old but funny!

 

[Freya]

Yeah, you are right that a lot of people are totally ignorant of literature and that is partly why it's fun and why I like to do it

You'll be upset when it backfires on you, and the taxi people refuse to send a taxi out to an obvious joker

 

[Wabbit]

No, I would not becaue it would be the result of my actions. Why would I be upset? It's my choice and my risk and my responsibility! Why would I be upset?

And... joke? No, no I am not being a joker.

Having fun with the world. Bringing a little light and colour to a more mundane world. Pushing the boundries of what is known. Becomming a famous writer, if only for a second. Having the names of famous writers aired to the masses by a unwitting speaker. And just, for the sheer joy and fun of it!

But for a joke? Being a joker? No

 

[Stewart]

Get a taxi for Barbara Taylor Bradford next time then.

 

[RaVeN]

I started my own new game a while back.
I was at a local department store (JC Penney) looking at some sweaters. I noticed a man across the isle with his back to me and glancing back at me every once in awhile.

I thought little of it, then started to take a few of the sweaters quite a distance to a cash register. Half way there I changed my mind and turned around to return one of the sweaters. I then noticed the man I spoke of walking my way. And again noticed that after I passed him he turned around and headed back to the same spot I had originally saw him, again with his back to me.

The guy was ordinary enough looking. Jeans, flannel shirt, but the thing that gave him away was the black shoes with rubber soles. That's when the light bulb clicked on, he was a store detective. AND. that's when I decided to have some fun.

I put the sweaters back and moved next to him, looking at clothes on a table that he was looking at.

He looked at me and started to walk away. I gave him a few second lead and started to follow him. He took twists and turns through the isles while looking over his shoulder, and of course, there I was hot on his trail.

He started to cut between couples that were shopping just to elude me, but I stayed with him. We took a 5 minute tour of the store, with him looking back and giving me his best Hulk imitation.

It ended with him running down one of the isles, other customers staring at him, and when he turned back to look at me, standing there, I waved bye-bye and blew him a kiss.

I may not buy any more clothes from there but I'm thinking of going back to find my little friend the next time I get bored.


RaVeN

 

[Rogue]

That's a real LOL!!!

 

[Wabbit]

I started my own new game a while back.
I was at a local department store (JC Penney) looking at some sweaters. I noticed a man across the isle with his back to me and glancing back at me every once in awhile.

I thought little of it, then started to take a few of the sweaters quite a distance to a cash register. Half way there I changed my mind and turned around to return one of the sweaters. I then noticed the man I spoke of walking my way. And again noticed that after I passed him he turned around and headed back to the same spot I had originally saw him, again with his back to me.

The guy was ordinary enough looking. Jeans, flannel shirt, but the thing that gave him away was the black shoes with rubber soles. That's when the light bulb clicked on, he was a store detective. AND. that's when I decided to have some fun.

I put the sweaters back and moved next to him, looking at clothes on a table that he was looking at.

He looked at me and started to walk away. I gave him a few second lead and started to follow him. He took twists and turns through the isles while looking over his shoulder, and of course, there I was hot on his trail.

He started to cut between couples that were shopping just to elude me, but I stayed with him. We took a 5 minute tour of the store, with him looking back and giving me his best Hulk imitation.

It ended with him running down one of the isles, other customers staring at him, and when he turned back to look at me, standing there, I waved bye-bye and blew him a kiss.

I may not buy any more clothes from there but I'm thinking of going back to find my little friend the next time I get bored.


RaVeN

lol fantastic!!!

 

[Ou Be Low hoo]

Having the names of famous writers aired to the masses by a unwitting speaker.

Just because they call out the name doesn't mean they are ignorant of literature! They are simply calling out the name given to them!

If that's how you bring 'a little light and colour to a more mundane world' and push 'the boundries of what is known', then I take pity in the small pleasures you receive from this exercise. It also says something about YOUR world, not THE world...

 

[Stewart]

If that's how you bring 'a little light and colour to a more mundane world' and push 'the boundries of what is known', then I take pity in the small pleasures you receive from this exercise. It also says something about YOUR world, not THE world...

I agree. More polite than I would ever have put it.

 

[Wabbit]

Just because they call out the name doesn't mean they are ignorant of literature! They are simply calling out the name given to them!

Can you please point out where I said they WERE ignorant of literature?????

To quote myself "a lot of people are totally ignorant of literature." Is what I actually said.

Do I get an apology?

f that's how you bring 'a little light and colour to a more mundane world' and push 'the boundries of what is known', then I take pity in the small pleasures you receive from this exercise. It also says something about YOUR world, not THE world...

Yes, I take pleasure in the small things. A ray of sunlight. Rain on my face. The touch of a book and any small thing that I can do that will make me smile? You pity me that? How strange

 

[Ou Be Low hoo]

Do I get an apology?

I should give you an apology for something that YOU said and then further enforced? That IS strange...

Take a look as this quote and see if you can't recognise the implication of ignorance:

Having the names of famous writers aired to the masses by a UNWITTING speaker

...I helped you out a bit with that one...you're welcome.

So, do I get an apology?