Friday Fun – November Nonsense

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Where does this door lead? Find out further on.

What is your latest time waster?

One could say it’s a good warming up exercise for writers. Words with Friends, will they still be your friends after frenzied competition? If you have friends or relatives on other continents there will always be someone who is awake to play, even if you are up very late or early. Unlike Word Blitz and Quiz Planet there are no time constraints, so I do not have the excuse of my hands not working quickly enough for losing all the time.

In the meantime I don’t seem to be getting very far with Duolingo and the owl is always sending me sad or cross email reminders.

Meanwhile back in the real world, did Aliens leave this strange monolith? Find out where it is at the weekend.

Do you like peeping in windows? Who lives here?

Not sure… perhaps you prefer eavesdropping.

Cafes provide ideal opportunities to listen in to other tables, perhaps even snap what they are eating…

‘It was so windy his hearing aids blew off.’

‘She’s a tidy sort of person, so usually when she says the house is a complete mess she means she hasn’t emptied the dishwasher, but when we went to stay, the house was a complete mess.‘

When you hear a whole coffee and cake’s worth ( slowly eaten ) of a holiday from hell you are tempted to join in. ‘Oh that’s just like when we went away with… ‘

But you don’t need to pretend you are looking at your phone or absorbed in your cake. The queue at the shop till is just as fascinating. This is why we must keep human beings at the till. The young chap on the till is busy taping two large rectangular multi photo frames together for a customer. She had explained in great detail what happened last time she bought two such frames and why she needed them taped together to make carrying easier. She then went on to explain why she had bought and was buying again these frames and detailed how many grandchildren she had, referring to how many children she had had and probably about to describe how she had met her husband, but by that time he had finished wrapping. A self service checkout would not have helped her, nor listened with interest to her saga…

How has your week been? Eavesdropped on anyone interesting?

Do you play any addictive games?

37 thoughts on “Friday Fun – November Nonsense”

  1. Great post to lead into the weekend! When you walk the crowded, lively streets of New York, be prepared to hear so many conversations – in every language imaginable! It’s funny what people will talk about – very loudly – while walking on the street! I’m not a gamer like that, but so many in my family are – including my Mom, who is an expert Backgammon player, listing once on the 500 best in the US! Good for the mind, and I love card game because you can talk to the others while your mind is figuring out the angle! Cheers to a great weekend ahead for you!

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    1. Yes that was funny. we had a neighbour who sent us a Xmas card after we had moved away and below the normal greetings he had written PS. I had my leg amputated in November. Now we didn’t know him very well, but I did recall him having trouble with his knee!

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  3. I can’t wait to hear the story behind the monolith…or in front of it.

    Wordle is my time-waster of choice. The creators are diabolical; first they lure you in with some fairly easy words that you can figure out in two or three tries. But then they use a word like “gizmo” which totally flummoxed me AND ruined my stats.

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    1. Hello Judy, I hope you won’t be disappointed with the monolith story, I don’t think the location is as dramatic as Utah, though it does have an ancient history. I love Wordle and hate it sometimes!

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    1. Sorry to hear about your week. We have big offices of JP Morgan in Bournemouth and when I am walking across the common on my way to the big sports centre I pass their workers jogging or having walking meetings. My neighbour works for them and I often bump into him at the sports centre, also a place handy for the workers. I expect they are all happy to get out of the office for a spell!

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      2. They have a huge green glass building which is eye catching as you drive into Bournemouth. I walk past the entrance to JP which I call border control! Their site includes one of Bournemouth’s oldest houses. https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/20225946.jp-morgan-plan-preserve-bournemouths-littledown-house/ Staff are lucky to be right by the common and the sports centre. My neighbours both work for JP, some of the time from home since Covid.

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  7. I used to get so sidetracked in junior high school in the cafeteria that I wouldn’t pay attention to the talk at my table until I heard some interesting tidbit and would ask to be filled in. I was so annoying! Your cafe food looked much better than the cafeteria food. Mmmm

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  10. i finally deleted Words With Friends from my phone, but I typically had 25 games going simultaneously. It was the perfect distraction whenever I had a few moments before an appointment.

    Any place where people are crammed togther in a small place makes it hard not to eavesdrop. Besides cafes, another one for me is on an airplane.

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  11. When the game Angry Birds first came out, I loaded it onto my phone and think I played it for two months straight. I don’t do any gaming at the present, but Mrs. B has a few games she plays on her phone, of which I am confident I’d be horrible at. The week was a good one, but it surely would have been better had I been able to evesdrop on the car in front of me at the coffee drive-thru on Tuesday past. A driver was flailing their arms about while talking on their phone to someone, and it was an animated conversation I was definitely curious about. However, not curious enough to get out of the car and go up to theirs.😊

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  13. That owl doesn’t let you get away with not doing your homework does he? I can’t eavesdrop these days (can’t hear well enough) but enjoy looking at what other people put on the conveyor belt at the checkout and wondering what it says about their lives!

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    1. The conveyor belt on the checkout is certainly interesting. I was once behind an older couple at the till in Wilkinson’s ( when we had one in Bournemouth ) and from their discussion they were obviously staying in a hotel. All they bought were two pot noodles, he said to his wife ‘That will do for our dinner tonight’ Sounded like they were having a pretty grim holiday!

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  14. I don’t play phone games. The waffle looks nice. I was on trains yesterday for the first time since 2007. Amazed at some of the overheard conversations on the way to Liverpool Street. People now live their lives shamelessly in public, so it seems.

    Best wishes, Pete.

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