Moments that make you think about your journey
Jun 20th 2014, 6:28 am
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Re: Moments that make you think about your journey
Two young women at LAX once asked me what was worn under my kilt.
Pardon me ladies, I said, but everything is in fine working order.
Pardon me ladies, I said, but everything is in fine working order.
Jun 20th 2014, 7:10 am
#36
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Jun 20th 2014, 4:24 pm
#37
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Re: Moments that make you think about your journey
I didn't really live it, just borrowed it for a few weeks, but I was feeling a bit sorry for myself when I went there and things were very quickly put into perspective.
Also, I was a foot taller than everyone else and the wrong colouring altogether. Stood out just a fraction.
Also, I was a foot taller than everyone else and the wrong colouring altogether. Stood out just a fraction.
I'm 5 feet nothing.....and I was taller than most....including men...Amazingly good feeling!
Jun 21st 2014, 12:19 am
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Re: Moments that make you think about your journey
One that sticks in my mind was driving through an ice storm in the middle of nowhere Kansas on a work related trip. I clearly remember thinking: HTF did I get here.
Jun 21st 2014, 6:10 am
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Re: Moments that make you think about your journey
Definitely better to think of it as "moving forwards" to a new place (that may happen to be somewhere that you have lived in the past).
Jun 21st 2014, 6:15 am
#43
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Re: Moments that make you think about your journey
I get those HTF? moments too, though less often than I used to. They occur when I least expect them, perhaps in a traffic jam, or wandering around Lowes with a cart of timber and plumbing supplies (I didn't do much construction work in the UK, at least not compared to here in the US). The most memorable occasion was when I looked out across the rooftops of the city where I live, from my vantage point sitting astride the roof ridge of a house, hammer and chisel in hand, demolishing the chimneys! 
Felling mature trees with a heavy duty chainsaw has sparked several HTF? moments too.
Felling mature trees with a heavy duty chainsaw has sparked several HTF? moments too.
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Jun 21st 2014, 6:37 am
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Re: Moments that make you think about your journey
But having returned after 11 years - I've never since felt "at home" here. Though it's where I (try to) "live".
Emigrating in either direction, after time's elapsed, is a tricky thing. You change, places change...and anyone who thinks otherwise - is, I believe, in for a rude awakening.
