This Is A Heartwarming Story

[pastafreak]

It's about Thanksgiving ...I know, wrong month and wrong country. And it's long...but you don't need to read it all to get the message.
She thought she was messaging her grandson...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/11/18/grandma-thanksgiving-text-dench-hinton/

[burlyshirley]

Yes, that's lovely pasta. I enjoyed reading it.

[gness]

What a happy happenstance, Pasta....bit like accidentally ending up on AB. Offering to buy a strange aber a pie and a pint as he toured England on a motor bike and then.......... ;-)

[pastafreak]

*splutter!* ;)

[Hopkirk]

By the way, what is "Thanksgiving"?

[gness]

It's the day Bobtheturkey hides in an orange bucket, Hoppy.

[pastafreak]

Those orange buckets need to be used for something...anything!

[jno]

lovely story.

I've always said that (apart from a crabby waitress in Massachusetts) I never met an American I didn't like.

[Hopkirk]

You haven't met Donald Trump then.

[Canary42]

///By the way, what is "Thanksgiving"?///

Thanks for a successful harvest.

[jno]

you guessed right, Hopkirk.

[Buenchico]

Having read through Pasta's link, I'm beginning to think that I've missed out on something!

Some years ago, I received a text message (that clearly wasn't meant for me) inviting me to a party. Not wanting the sender to think that they'd invited the correct person, when they hadn't, I replied along the lines of "Just a text to let you know that you've just invited a very boring, very old guy in Suffolk to your party!". I wasn't expecting a reply but I got a lovely one back, thanking me for letting them know about their error and adding "If you can get down to Brighton, you'll still be very welcome at the party!"

I'm wishing that I'd gone now ;-)

[pastafreak]

Awww...you should have Chris. Though I admit I'd probably not have the courage to go...unless it was a public space.

[gness]

My name here in Kerry is shared by dozens of other women. Lots of female cousins and male cousins who married a Mary.
I was a bit miffed when Dave and other friends were invited to a whiskey tasting evening but I wasn't.
Turned out the host had sent the message to the wrong person who shares my name. Puzzled, she turned down the invite....washing her hair or something.... and had much explaining to do to her husband as to why a strange man wanted to taste whiskey with her.

[wolf63]

Gness, she could add your full name to her conacts ... Scary Mary!

[jno]

Scary Kerry Mary indeed

[roopower]

That's lovely, we need more like that.

[gness]

Ever since the incident with the wax effigy and pins I'm in one guy's phone here under....Voodoo Mary.

I did once, in the UK, hear the chap next door telling his daughter not to climb over the fence or Scary Mary would be after her.