Conversations only I can have #1
Nov.21, 2007, filed under Miscellany
As all the people I’ve mailed this to are off busy, I shall share.
I go out to reception this morning whilst working up the gumption to go out and do some work on site. The guy on reception is a lovely young man who deserves biscuits. It’s pouring with rain. Absolutely dreichit. And cold.
“I don’t want to go out there,” I tell him.
“You have to. It’s your job.”
“But waaaah!”
“You’ll be fine. You get all those lovely fleeces and things.”
“I want my Mummy.”
“Have you got a brolly?”
“No! Nasty things. You’ll have someone’s eye out with one of those. Already lost one, don’t want to lose the other.”
“Not with a brolly?”
“Nah. Stuck a piece of wire in it when I was fifteen months old.”
“Seriously?”
“Aye.”
“Were you trying to eat it?”
I stare at him for a few seconds. “That’s the strangest thing anyone has ever asked me about my eye.”
There is a moment’s silence. “No! The wire, silly!”
We both collapse into hysterical giggling.
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~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
