Comfortably numb......
Sep 21st 2013, 9:23 am
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Re: Comfortably numb......
Now get your head round this one all you sceptics from the spooky thread.....
One time I was here in Hobart with my then "very significant other" back in 2001, he lent me a book he had just read, I was going backpacking in the north and he thought I'd enjoy reading it on my travels. Memoirs of a British general who fought in the Gulf War, not my usual travel book but he raved about it so I gave it a go. Turned out to be fascinating, we talked about it heaps, the guy wrote really well and I was hooked. Meant to buy a copy back home but never got round to it. When Michael passed away all his books went to a local second-hand place, I was told, his friend ddn't know which as the ex-wife had just cleared the place alone.
Coupe of years ago I thought about trying to find the book to re-read it, but couldn't remember the title or the guy's name, though I could see the green cover in my mind. Untraceable so dismissed the idea.
Yesterday I walked into the little secondhand bookshop by my hotel. Face out on the shelf........'the' book. So I dance a little jig, snap it up with a few others, had a closer look at it last night
Its his copy.
One time I was here in Hobart with my then "very significant other" back in 2001, he lent me a book he had just read, I was going backpacking in the north and he thought I'd enjoy reading it on my travels. Memoirs of a British general who fought in the Gulf War, not my usual travel book but he raved about it so I gave it a go. Turned out to be fascinating, we talked about it heaps, the guy wrote really well and I was hooked. Meant to buy a copy back home but never got round to it. When Michael passed away all his books went to a local second-hand place, I was told, his friend ddn't know which as the ex-wife had just cleared the place alone.
Coupe of years ago I thought about trying to find the book to re-read it, but couldn't remember the title or the guy's name, though I could see the green cover in my mind. Untraceable so dismissed the idea.
Yesterday I walked into the little secondhand bookshop by my hotel. Face out on the shelf........'the' book. So I dance a little jig, snap it up with a few others, had a closer look at it last night
Its his copy.
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Sep 21st 2013, 10:13 am
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Sep 21st 2013, 10:16 am
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Sep 21st 2013, 10:33 am
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Re: Comfortably numb......
beer stains on certain pages, a couple of creased corners where he wanted me to read bits, and 
very un-me cos I don't usually mark books, but the pencil scribble saying "M how did they DO this " in a margin on a turned down page was a giveaway......
very un-me cos I don't usually mark books, but the pencil scribble saying "M how did they DO this " in a margin on a turned down page was a giveaway......
Sep 21st 2013, 11:31 am
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Re: Comfortably numb......
How long has it been since M passed away?Strange how these things happen
Sep 21st 2013, 12:15 pm
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Sep 21st 2013, 12:49 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
Unless it's the only book store in Hobart and it's been closed all this time
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Sep 21st 2013, 1:11 pm
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Re: Comfortably numb......
Sep 23rd 2013, 9:49 am
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Sep 23rd 2013, 12:13 pm
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Sep 23rd 2013, 12:24 pm
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Sep 23rd 2013, 12:44 pm
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Sep 30th 2013, 10:49 am
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OMG I've got a stalker
Not a cyber one either, a real one
Wandered down to the post office today, oblivious to anyone around me as usual, ipod in my ears, some random guy said 'hello'but I didn't even realised till he'd gone past.
Come out of the shopping centre, there's the same guy sitting on the wall doing his shoes up, he muttered something about it being a nice day, I just smiled, ipod firmly in ears, walked on.
Went in the pub for a pint (be rude not to when I'm passing it ) sit outside in the breeze, ipod on, ipad out, posting twaddle on BE....and this guy appears AGAIN!
He sat at the next table, about 25 I suppose, faded tshirt, shorts that are too big, scruffy trainers, I just registered him and thought
I've seen you before.
Then he only comes over to me, says he's seen me a couple of times today and I must be his sort of person cos of my jewellery
Not being one for lots of glittery stuff it consisted of one bead ring, one glass ring and a friendship bracelet of Tibetan beads!! Hardly anything to make me look special!
So he launched into this long one-sided chat about how he could never meet the right people and how was he supposed to find people who shared his interests, and how he was glad he kept bumping into me cos I look like a kindred spirit
He wandered off to have a cigarette so I moved indoors for my second pint
Came out and he'd gone, phew, so i went to the bottle shop, stocked up on the cheap wine, came out.....and he's sat outside
Not only that but when my cab turned up he asked if he could have a lift! I said "You don't know where I'm going" he said, "no but I'll pay and I can drop you off on the way to my place, then I'll know!"
In his frickin nightmares he could!!!! At least there were no other cabs so he couldn't get one to follow me
now to get over it!!
Not a cyber one either, a real one
Wandered down to the post office today, oblivious to anyone around me as usual, ipod in my ears, some random guy said 'hello'but I didn't even realised till he'd gone past.
Come out of the shopping centre, there's the same guy sitting on the wall doing his shoes up, he muttered something about it being a nice day, I just smiled, ipod firmly in ears, walked on.
Went in the pub for a pint (be rude not to when I'm passing it ) sit outside in the breeze, ipod on, ipad out, posting twaddle on BE....and this guy appears AGAIN!
He sat at the next table, about 25 I suppose, faded tshirt, shorts that are too big, scruffy trainers, I just registered him and thought
I've seen you before. Then he only comes over to me, says he's seen me a couple of times today and I must be his sort of person cos of my jewellery
Not being one for lots of glittery stuff it consisted of one bead ring, one glass ring and a friendship bracelet of Tibetan beads!! Hardly anything to make me look special!So he launched into this long one-sided chat about how he could never meet the right people and how was he supposed to find people who shared his interests, and how he was glad he kept bumping into me cos I look like a kindred spirit
He wandered off to have a cigarette so I moved indoors for my second pint
Came out and he'd gone, phew, so i went to the bottle shop, stocked up on the cheap wine, came out.....and he's sat outside Not only that but when my cab turned up he asked if he could have a lift! I said "You don't know where I'm going" he said, "no but I'll pay and I can drop you off on the way to my place, then I'll know!"
In his frickin nightmares he could!!!! At least there were no other cabs so he couldn't get one to follow me
now to get over it!!
Sep 30th 2013, 11:03 am
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Re: Comfortably numb......
OMG I've got a stalker
Not a cyber one either, a real one
Wandered down to the post office today, oblivious to anyone around me as usual, ipod in my ears, some random guy said 'hello'but I didn't even realised till he'd gone past.
Come out of the shopping centre, there's the same guy sitting on the wall doing his shoes up, he muttered something about it being a nice day, I just smiled, ipod firmly in ears, walked on.
Went in the pub for a pint (be rude not to when I'm passing it ) sit outside in the breeze, ipod on, ipad out, posting twaddle on BE....and this guy appears AGAIN!
He sat at the next table, about 25 I suppose, faded tshirt, shorts that are too big, scruffy trainers, I just registered him and thought I've seen you before.
Then he only comes over to me, says he's seen me a couple of times today and I must be his sort of person cos of my jewellery Not being one for lots of glittery stuff it consisted of one bead ring, one glass ring and a friendship bracelet of Tibetan beads!! Hardly anything to make me look special!
So he launched into this long one-sided chat about how he could never meet the right people and how was he supposed to find people who shared his interests, and how he was glad he kept bumping into me cos I look like a kindred spirit
He wandered off to have a cigarette so I moved indoors for my second pint Came out and he'd gone, phew, so i went to the bottle shop, stocked up on the cheap wine, came out.....and he's sat outside
Not only that but when my cab turned up he asked if he could have a lift! I said "You don't know where I'm going" he said, "no but I'll pay and I can drop you off on the way to my place, then I'll know!"
In his frickin nightmares he could!!!! At least there were no other cabs so he couldn't get one to follow me
now to get over it!!
Not a cyber one either, a real one
Wandered down to the post office today, oblivious to anyone around me as usual, ipod in my ears, some random guy said 'hello'but I didn't even realised till he'd gone past.
Come out of the shopping centre, there's the same guy sitting on the wall doing his shoes up, he muttered something about it being a nice day, I just smiled, ipod firmly in ears, walked on.
Went in the pub for a pint (be rude not to when I'm passing it ) sit outside in the breeze, ipod on, ipad out, posting twaddle on BE....and this guy appears AGAIN!
He sat at the next table, about 25 I suppose, faded tshirt, shorts that are too big, scruffy trainers, I just registered him and thought
I've seen you before. Then he only comes over to me, says he's seen me a couple of times today and I must be his sort of person cos of my jewellery
Not being one for lots of glittery stuff it consisted of one bead ring, one glass ring and a friendship bracelet of Tibetan beads!! Hardly anything to make me look special!So he launched into this long one-sided chat about how he could never meet the right people and how was he supposed to find people who shared his interests, and how he was glad he kept bumping into me cos I look like a kindred spirit
He wandered off to have a cigarette so I moved indoors for my second pint
Came out and he'd gone, phew, so i went to the bottle shop, stocked up on the cheap wine, came out.....and he's sat outside Not only that but when my cab turned up he asked if he could have a lift! I said "You don't know where I'm going" he said, "no but I'll pay and I can drop you off on the way to my place, then I'll know!"
In his frickin nightmares he could!!!! At least there were no other cabs so he couldn't get one to follow me
now to get over it!!
Sep 30th 2013, 11:17 am
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