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« Reply #90 on: January 28, 2010, 22:37:04 PM » |
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The mention of slippers reminded me of this little story!
Alan was the Medical Officer for a Japanese factory (Brother) who were based in Drogheda for quite a while. He looked after all the Japanese families and they were absolutely lovely people! So friendly and polite & really very charming.
Anyhow, the men working in the factory had very good English, but their wives at home had a lot of difficully communicating. Usually in the surgery this wasn't much of a "plobrem" as they say in Japan, as the menfolk would do all the talking.
One day, Alan got a call from the factory to ask him to do a housecall to one of the Japanese men as he was very ill and confined to bed. He drove to his house and little Mrs Terikaki came to the door to let Alan in. As he stepped into the hall she motioned to him to stay and then started pointing down at his shoes. Apparently they always remove their outdoor shoes as soon as they walk indoors. Alan looked confused and apparently asked her did he have to take off his big lumpy size 10 loafers! She nodded approvingly, as he bent down to remove the shoes, but when he picked up his doctors bag and went to walk down the hall in his stocking feet, she nodded her head furiously again! He was expected to put on slippers before he could go down to her husbands bedroom! There were a couple of pairs of small feet that might have been grand for a wee Japanese man, but Alan has feet like skis, so they wouldn't look at him! Then, lo and behold, from under the coat stand she pulled out a pair of slip ons and pointed at Alan to put them on. He said they looked about a size three and they were pink and fluffy across the instep! He slipped his feet in as best he could and followed her down the hall to see her husband. He was sure he was going to turn up on candid camera! He laughed the whole way home in the car every time he thought how totally insane he must have looked tip toeing down the hall in his sexy slippers!
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« Reply #91 on: January 28, 2010, 22:41:31 PM » |
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lmao Bernie ... Mr SG has size 10's and I can just picture it!
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« Reply #92 on: January 28, 2010, 22:49:44 PM » |
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Once again a great story from you Bernie and we've all been missing them lately. Please can I have some more miss.  |
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If you don't laugh at yourself, you're missing the best joke.
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« Reply #93 on: January 28, 2010, 23:08:57 PM » |
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Ha ha ha ha. Remind me to take the mickey out of him when you guys are next round our house B!
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Bernie Bobcat
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« Reply #94 on: January 29, 2010, 09:39:46 AM » |
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Bernie Bobcat
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« Reply #96 on: January 29, 2010, 09:54:12 AM » |
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If my memory serves me correctly Steve, when you posted that picture, my comment was something along the lines of "YEUK!!!! - and the spider's fcuking awful looking too"!  Did I really say "cute"?  ...... only kidding mate! You're a cute as a button! |
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« Reply #97 on: January 29, 2010, 10:00:58 AM » |
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Be happy, communicate happiness
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« Reply #98 on: January 29, 2010, 17:25:43 PM » |
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I just had to click that link didn't I?! I'm now itching with imaginary spiders.
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« Reply #99 on: January 29, 2010, 17:34:36 PM » |
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The clue's in the title BIG spider
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