WTF? #24
Posted: May 2, 2012 Filed under: RTW, WTF? | Tags: australia, gap year, holiday, new zealand, round the world, rtw, travel, WTF? 2 Comments »However they teach the Green Cross Code to Antipodean children, it is obviously a very effective method. Australians and New Zealanders will not cross without a green man, even when they can see that there is nothing coming for miles. I feel like some reckless maverick crossing the road on the red man. In Auckland we even saw people waiting for the green man when the road they wanted to cross was all coned off and shut to traffic.
WTF? #23
Posted: March 6, 2012 Filed under: RTW, WTF? Leave a comment »Overheard in the Fantastic Creatures from the British Museum exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art:
“Is that a real unicorn horn?”
WTF? #22
Posted: March 5, 2012 Filed under: RTW, WTF? Leave a comment »Spotted in a Hong Kong shopping centre; a year old baby, 15 months max, with an iPad. Actually using it – doing the scrolly-scrolly finger and everything.
WTF? #21
Posted: December 31, 2011 Filed under: RTW, WTF? | Tags: asia, cochin, gap year, holiday, India, Kerala, kochi, round the world, rtw, travel, WTF? 1 Comment »Mr Beet, in a restaurant in Cochin:
“I think the chicken sandwich from here might have been what made me ill.”
Moments later…
“Chicken sandwich please.”
WTF? 20
Posted: June 30, 2011 Filed under: RTW, WTF? | Tags: amy pond, doctor who, dr who, paradox, pill, pregnancy, pregnant, prescription, quantum, quantum mechanics, quantum theory, rtw, schrodinger's cat, travel, WTF? 3 Comments »I had to go the family planning clinic to stock up on pills for my round-the-world trip (my new GP has a rule that they will only prescribe 6 months’ worth - the clinic takes a much more sensible view). I had to fill in the form and was slightly puzzled by the question:
“Are you aiming to:
(a) avoid a pregnancy?
(b) achieve a pregnancy?
(c) both?”
I’m not sure under what circumstances somebody would tick (c). Maybe if they were trying to achieve some kind of quantum Schrodinger’s foetus, a la Amy Pond.
WTF? 19
Posted: June 13, 2011 Filed under: WTF? | Tags: WTF? Leave a comment »Weird ad copy just hit my inbox:
“You have to feel sorry for those Tudor types, wandering around in flowing robes, tripping over their skirts with nothing but a flickering candle to guide them in the dark. Thanks to the miracle of electricity, candles can now be used for fashion rather than function, freeing up wax to perform a much more valuable service…Brazilian waxes”
It’s 5.30 and I’ve been up all night/morning working, so I’m wondering whether this is as bizarre as I think or whether it’s just me being a bit spaced out.
WTF? #18
Posted: February 21, 2011 Filed under: RTW, WTF? | Tags: add, africa, bolivia, calculator, chile, itinerary, maths, Namibia, peru, rtw, south africa, south america, sum, travel agent, WTF? Leave a comment »Mr Beet and I went to the travel agent to get some quotes for our round the world trip. Still haven’t booked anything though, mainly because we’re now thinking of changing our itinerary to include South America (Chile, Bolivia, Peru) rather than Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia). Got a decent quote, but I did lose confidence in our travel agent somewhat when she had to use a calculator to add £1,000 to £1,800.
WTF? #17
Posted: December 8, 2010 Filed under: WTF? | Tags: beaver, costume, squirrel, waxing, WTF? Leave a comment »Why is the man advertising waxing and threading dressed like a squirrel?
Oh… he’s meant to be a beaver. I get it. I hope for his sake he’s not one of those exploding Latvian beavers.
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Posted: November 29, 2010 Filed under: WTF? | Tags: flag, glove, hat, lost, lost and found, lost property, WTF? Leave a comment »I left my hat in Boots today and I went back after work to see if anybody had handed it in.
“Hello, has anybody handed in a hat?”
“What does it look like?”
“It’s a woolly hat and it’s green and grey.”
“I’ll go and look…”
…
“Ummm…I’m afraid this is all I could find.”
You mean, all you can find is an item that exactly matches the description I just gave you.
It may be that I lose things more frequently than the average person, but I always seem to have odd conversations with lost property people. I once left a tae kwon do flag at my local station:
“Hello, I think I lost a flag here yesterday.”
“Can you describe the flag?”
I don’t know how many flags he had in his small lost property cardboard box. Obviously several.
I think the weirdest one was when I left a glove on a bus. I didn’t need to give a description, I had the other glove to show the lost property person. She took it away and had a look through the lost property and came back with my stripy glove in one hand and a purple child’s glove in the other. No… no, that isn’t it.
WTF? 15
Posted: October 26, 2010 Filed under: WTF? | Tags: new york, NYC, WTF? Leave a comment »In New York last week I chased after a woman who had dropped $50 in the street to return it to her. She said “You’re a good girl – you’re going to Heaven today.” Which, when you think about it, is a really dreadful thing to say to someone. I looked twice before crossing the road in front of those unpredictable NY cabs for the rest of the day!
