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| Wednesday, August 22, 2007 |
| Hobblings Galore |
I'd like to set one thing straight - I actually DIDN'T mix Q and Em up. However, I didn't name them in the order they were standing, so while I was LOOKING at Em whilst saying Em and LOOKING at Q whilst saying Q, I may have pointed to them in the wrong order. Or possibly I was looking at the wrong one but pointing at the right one. Or something. At any rate, they completely confused me by not introducing Myo. I thought at first that she was a random stranger who had gotten caught up by the general Hobbling excitement (Em and Q together makes for a LOT of noise), or perhaps a figment of my imagination. Myo later went on to tell me that Sydney was a "drowned river harbour", thoroughly confusing me again as - for two befuddled seconds - I thought she meant that it had been deliberately created through some mammoth engineering project that had, in turn, been entirely left out of the school history curriculum.
And I got a frog tattoo, not a gecko. Although I was tempted by the gecko. But yes, the arse in class comment threw me into the sort of helpless giggling fit that any witness usually finds terribly amusing, and involves me becoming almost paralytic. You were lucky I didn't actually collapse in the street. Although I guess that would have made for good photos. Furthermore, every time I said "classy" over the next week, I remembered Q's tone as she caught sight of me ramming an entire caramel bar in my mouth (I couldn't bite a piece off, so I was hoping that it would somehow be more dignified to eat the whole thing at once... sadly, I quickly discovered that not only did it barely fit, it effectively glued my teeth together so I couldn't chew it), and very nearly got the giggles all over again.
When I got back to the flat that evening, the Real Life Female Person was teasing Mr Ata for having called so many times. I think he was anxious to meet Hobblings. Otherwise, the conversation on my arrival at the flat went like this:
Male Person: (putting head in from the balconey where he is cooking on a barbecue) So... those were your friends?
Ata: Yep.
MP: Where were they from? Paraguay or something, wasn't it?
Ata: (thinking, dear lord, this man is a doctor?) No... Victoria and NSW and Sweden and England....
MP: And you know them from the internet.
Ata: (thinking, how many times did we go over this yesterday - does he really plan to be a cardiac surgeon?) Yes.
MP: So.. when did you first meet them? Like, in person?
Ata: (thinking, yes, went over this too) Today.
MP: Today was the first time. You've never met them before.
Ata: (silently swearing to take excellent care of her heart) Yes. Today.
MP: Oh. Hm. (goes back to cooking barbecue)
Female Person: Hey! Are you on Facebook?! |
posted by Ata @ 8:08 pm  |
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Ha.
That reminds me of how awkward it was when I met Sky and had to explain how we had never "met" but still knew each other.
*jealous* that you met Myo by the way.
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Heh. RL people can be so... special.
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Kep got there first. I was just about to say the same thing... *grin*
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Hee hee hee, I love meets. I'm so glad you came, Ata, it was great to meet you.
Kepp, come to Australia one day and we'll help you stalk Myo. Although, the world may end if you're in the same room as her...
Worth a try. *grin*
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Ha.
That reminds me of how awkward it was when I met Sky and had to explain how we had never "met" but still knew each other.
*jealous* that you met Myo by the way.