| Title: | Topics of Interest to Women |
| Notice: | V3 is closed. TURRIS::WOMANNOTES-V5 is open. |
| Moderator: | REGENT::BROOMHEAD |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 30 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1078 |
| Total number of notes: | 52352 |
Have you ever had a mistaken Experience?
For instance: Hemingway wrote a piece called "A Day's Wait"
Where a little boy thought he was going to die because
he had a 102 temperture and the boys at school told him
that anything over 47 you were surely going to die. Then
the father explained to the boy that they were talking
about a different measurement, like miles and kilometers.
Or have you ever been approached at a Bar and thought
your were being picked up when in reality the person
was merely seeking directions?
Or any sort of embarassing moments where you totally misinterpreted
the situtation? I would love to hear them.
Mia
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| 376.1 | CSC32::CONLON | Cosmic laughter, indeed.... | Thu Sep 13 1990 14:45 | 21 | |
When I was around 9 years old, I got a boy's gift at a children's
Christmas party by mistake. It was a model with serious glue (not
the paste I'd used in school projects.)
I read the instructions about not breathing the glue, so I built
the model while holding my breath. (I would leave the model every
30 seconds or so to go breathe.)
At lunchtime, I made myself a peanut-butter and peanut-butter
sandwich so I could keep working on my model.
When my mouth stuck together and I could barely swallow, I thought
I'd accidentally breathed the glue and was dying of glue poisoning.
I sat next to my model, holding my breath, with one tear rolling
down my cheek - and a mouth full of peanut-butter - until someone
from my family explained the effects of eating peanut-butter without
jelly. (It's too bad the peanut-butter's instructions were not as
explicit as the glue instructions.) ;^)
My model came out beautifully.
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| 376.2 | ancient history | DECWET::JWHITE | the company of intelligent women | Thu Sep 13 1990 19:29 | 12 |
i was in virginia, playing in the virginia opera. michael, the gay
bassoonist, and i were searching for, um, well, let's just say it
wasn't legal in virginia. we *were* able to find a gay bar, however.
later, as we were leaving, i noticed a guy near the door who looked
like he might have, uh, first hand knowledge of that commodity for
which michael and i had been looking. i caught his eye. virtually
instantaneously i realised that he had been checking *me* out. and
not because i looked like a drug addict. realising i was in over my
head, michael rescued me from what might have been an interesting
misunderstanding.
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| 376.3 | Hi there | MCIS2::WALTON | Fri Sep 14 1990 11:07 | 4 | |
Well, hello Mia!
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| 376.4 | MOMCAT::CADSE::GLIDEWELL | Wow! It's The Abyss! | Thu Sep 20 1990 22:02 | 7 | |
Mia,
WN vol 1, note 452 has about 120 of these experiences ...
Misconceptions while growing up, and a few from
adulthood too.
They're a riot. :) Meigs
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