Strange Conversations: Part Thirty-Seven
Posted 23 August 2008 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
The danger of miming or why I don’t hold conversations when I have my mouth full:
NICK: How about I make some coffee and we watch Burn Notice?
ME: (indicates an extremely small span with my fingers and then makes the universal gesture for insanity, as perfected by Edvard Munch)
NICK: What? A small amount of coffee equals a lot of screaming?
ME: (shakes head)
NICK: You’ve had too much to drink?
ME: (shakes head)
NICK: You’re scared of the pincer movement?
Share your thoughts [6]
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Tim wrote at Aug 25, 10:06 am
So what did he mean?
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Catriona wrote at Aug 25, 11:15 am
You mean what was I trying unsuccessfully to mime?
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Matthew Smith wrote at Aug 26, 12:08 am
She was saying “In a little while, I have to call my mum first”
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Catriona wrote at Aug 26, 12:18 am
Oi, Matt! The only time you met my Mam, she spent the entire afternoon amusing your toddler by turning my coffee table upside down and pretending it was a boat. She’s quite . . . eccentric, but she doesn’t do my head in.
Actually, I was trying to say, “I’ll just have a small coffee or I’ll be bouncing off the walls.”
I thought that was fairly easy to interpret, myself. But I felt the “fear of the pincer movement” idea was unusually imaginative.
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Tim wrote at Aug 26, 10:00 am
I failed my reading check and thought Nick was the one doing the miming.
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Catriona wrote at Aug 26, 10:26 am
Speaking of failing reading checks, I’ve gone back down to Level 1 in Dungeons and Dragons: Tiny Adventures, after their latest server crash.
Not too thrilled about that.
(Plus, I just failed an Intelligence check and got carved up by witches. Dang it.)