tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23008725.post4332792788557432568..comments2023-06-23T10:59:09.042+01:00Comments on where there are no chickadees: Living British: Tales of Quiet DesperationPurestGreenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10860331983741242940noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23008725.post-24703836171627062522009-02-10T20:12:00.000+00:002009-02-10T20:12:00.000+00:00:-) Oh how I recognise this! Actually, I think I ...:-) Oh how I recognise this! Actually, I think I may be of foreign extraction, either that or age is kicking in and I am becoming a grumpy old woman for I did once demand that the person sitting beside me on the plane, who blatantly ignored the request of their air hostess to turn his mobile phone off, did in fact turn his phone off. To my surprise he did and I came out of it injury free. However, I have still to pluck up sufficient courage to tell Johnny Ned to turn down his infernal racket; although I do feel myself getting dangerously close at times...Jacquihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16873201929685323395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23008725.post-87809429533235736762009-02-06T14:09:00.000+00:002009-02-06T14:09:00.000+00:00I wish that we had more British "reserve" here in ...I wish that we had more British "reserve" here in the states. Fewer people would get shot at the stations...that's for sure. But we are, after all,the Ugly Americans. <BR/>Maybe I need to buy a gun.<BR/><BR/>And thanks for the voting help. I guess I could've mentioned that you can vote every day.<BR/>So vote with vigor and vote often.<BR/><BR/>Right On.C.S. Perryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13788814137559471709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23008725.post-36576134196395922222009-02-06T07:04:00.000+00:002009-02-06T07:04:00.000+00:00I must say that it sounds very like riding the bus...I must say that it sounds very like riding the bus in Portland, Oregon!<BR/><BR/>Loved this. Especially the bit about the gestures to indicate you'll be getting off soon.Dalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14523194846272870013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23008725.post-88327108951240119662009-02-05T21:26:00.000+00:002009-02-05T21:26:00.000+00:00We are all polite serial killers. I don't know how...We are all polite serial killers. I don't know how many strangers I've murdered in my own head.<BR/>jpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com