Why Do I Attract Them?

[mrs_overall]

Earlier today I was in a shop standing at the back of a queue of 3. The woman in front of me was about 60, very smartly dressed with perfectly applied make-up and she looked normal. She was clutching a draught excluder. She turned to me and her speech to me went as follows:
"I'm buying this draught excluder. I'm not buying it because I have a draught, although there is a big gap under the door. I am buying it to save daddy's books. Mice come under the gap in the door and I have daddy's books piled up there to stop them getting in. It does make it awkward when I want to leave the room because daddy had a lot of books and I have them all piled up against the door. I shout and tell the mice not to go in the room when I am out of it. But now all my problems are solved as I shall lay this draught excluder against the door and there is no way the mice can get past it."

At this point I suddenly "remembered" I needed something else from a distant corner of the shop, and I left the queue.

[Sipowicz]

What did you need........draught excluder?

[mrs_overall]

Lol no. I found myself suddenly interested in rolls of net curtains (and I hate net curtains with a passion)

[EcclesCake]

And there I was considering a weekend in Whitby.

It has now been demonstrated that they are all as mad as a box of frogs and I clearly won't fit in :-(

[boxtops]

She clearly hadn't considered that, mice being mice, they'll EAT the draught excluder....

[Baldric]

Surprised you didn't have a sand-filled Marigold to hand!

[mrs_overall]

Eccles, come for a weekend.
All you have to remember to do to fit in is to occasionally point at imaginary things in the sky

[paddywak]

I sympathise Mrs O. I had a very good friend,now sadly deceased, who was like you.I'm sure he had an invisible sign that attracted all the weirdos.

[gness]

Why? Because it was your turn....I'm having a housework day today...ish..x

[EcclesCake]

I'll give it some thought Mrs O......whilst re calibrating my brain away from NFN and into NFW.......

[mrs_overall]

Right Gness, you can borrow the invisible sign for the rest of the week xx

[gness]

My..your generosity knows no bounds...thank you so much....xx

[Psybbo]

She must have been intimidated by this long legged international supermodel who was outshining her and thought of a ruse to get rid of her

[corylus]

It's just your magnetic allure Mrs O she obviously felt drawn to you as a fellow 'normal looking' person with an obsession for draught excluders.

[mazie]

No Psybbo, she just recognised a kindred spirit : o)

[pips1]

I got one on the bus the other day, completely bonkers. She plonked herself down next to me and never paused for breath, I had the full version of what she had done all day. The schoolkids on the bus were sniggering and looking and then she took out a bottle of water to drink, but didn't stop talking, so I am then covered in spray as she twittered on! I got off the bus a stop too early just for some peace and quiet, ha.

[Robinia]

That's a fairly normal shop queue conversation where I live.
Maybe she'd misunderstood when someone had told her to get a draught excluder to keep mice out ...she needed a bristle strip. :)

[Psybbo]

Mazie, you are really brave:-)

[Fusion5]

You should have returned to the queue with some mousetraps, Mrs. O. lol lol

[Buenchico]

>>>and she looked normal

Oh come off it, Mrs_O. You're not really expecting us to believe that YOU have any concept of normality, are you?

;-)

[Psybbo]

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