Clumsy "jackass" experience...

When I worked as a tourleader/guide working at the Greek island Skiathos. I lived in a small room and outside the room was a tiny hallway with a refrigerator. When I was going to iron my clothes I had to iron them on top of the refrigerator as I did not have an ironing board. One morning ironing my dress in my underwear. I was so tired and somehow I lost the grip of the iron so instinctively I pressed the iron to my body as otherwise it would fall to the floor. I burnt my breast with the iron! How clumsy was that!???? It hurt and I was marked by the experience!

He answered OK

I wrote an sms to my husband: I love you.
He replied with an sms: OK.


Now guess why he answered like that?! If  you have read my previous story you know why....
He is technically incompetent and cannot use the punchkeys correctly so this is the only thing he could write back to me.

Does this make sense to you????

My husband is not good at anything technical...today he tried to send an sms to my daughter. The first sms was just empty, the second sms said AK and the first last sms said ALK. When my daughter showed me the smses I did not understand them at all. She said but I understood it right away. Ok what does it mean? She said: ÄLSKAR DIG. I laughed my head off.


To interpret this into English the second sms said: LE and the third sms said: LEY. In other words LOVE YOU. Wasn´t that easy to understand???

Please please can the ground open up and swallow me!?

I was invited to a friends house and just when I arrived in her hallway I took of my jacket and I swung the jacket a little too high and too much and it got caught in some decorative dried flowers who hung on the wall. The dried flowers fell down on the floor and fell into small pieces and I felt so clumsy and stupid. My friend she looked really sad and upset. She said: Those were my wedding bouquet. I thought: Oh no!! Can the ground open up and swallow me and spit me out on the other side of the earth???

Toilet surprise!

Two weeks ago we were eating out at the restaurant Grodan. I went to the ladies at this restaurant and locked the door. I did what I had to do in there and suddenly another guest opened the door. I do not know how it could happen, as the door was locked, he said: Oh, I am so sorry, excuse me and closed the door. I quickly locked it again. It seems like there was something wrong with the lock. Oh well, just one of those embarrassing moments which are known to happen to me...

A volcano is hot very hot.......

One summer in Greece we visited an island called Nissyros which is in fact a sleeping volcano. We took a bus up to its crater and it was really smelly up there. Smelled liked rotten eggs. We walked around in the crater and there were small holes in the ground. I was curious and from these holes we saw steam coming up. I leaned forward looking into the holes and I thought it was a good idea to stretch my hand and arm into a hole. I pulled my arm out again really quickly. Boy it was hot! I do not know why I thought it would be a good idea to put my hand into a volcano...what was I thinking!??? Not my smartest moves.

 

Leave your baby and run for your life

My daughter´s classmate who was about 7-9 years old had an accident at school so the teacher phoned his family and his mother came to the school, to fetch him, so they could go to the hospital. That is all very normal but now what did his mother do....she came to the school with her baby daughter and she left the baby with the teacher as she claimed that she could not take the baby with her and had no where to turn to. My question is this:


- What if something happened with the baby who´s responsibility is it? A baby would disturb the teaching as it needs attention all the time. In my world it is not the schools responsibility to become a day care centre. Maybe I am heartless but one cannot just dump your baby in a school and leave it.
Bye bye baby!

The world´s most expensive paper

My mother gave me a piece of paper which I was going to bring to school to my art class. We were going to paint with water colours and she told me that this paper was perfect for that. The art teacher looked at my paper and then surprised say: - It is Lessebo the world´s most expensive paper! Handmade and with a water stamp. He took the paper and checked the water stamp and yes there it was. I just looked at him and did not know what he was talking about. He looked so impressed and surprised. Maybe he thought the paper should no be wasted on me as he looked sort of shocked. In my super snobbish school I never had the fancy clothes like my rich classmates but hey I had the most expensive paper in the world!

Liar liar your pants are on fire!

I knew a girl who worked as a tour leader/guide at Gran Canaries. She had a boyfriend in Sweden and a boyfriend at Gran Canaries. I travelled to Gran Canaries to see her and she invited me to stay together with her in her small apartment. All was well until her boyfriend came down for a surprise visit. I had to move out and sneak into a nearby apartment which I was not allowed to sleep in with only a mattress on the floor. Her boyfriend stayed with her and during they daytime he spent some time with me. I had never met him before and boy was I glad I had not met him before. When we met dark skinned men he always asked if they had hashish. I do not know why he thought dark coloured men would be drug dealers. So very embarrassing. I did not want to spend time with him anymore. One evening I heard from my friend that he Spanish boyfriend knocked on her door when her other boyfriend was in the apartment. She had just a small opening on the door and her Swedish boyfriend got suspicious. Her Canary boyfriend left when she said she was not well. Just in time and she told her Swedish boyfriend some other lie.  When I moved out to make room for her boyfriend I left my suitcase and all my things as I just slept somewhere else. It turned out that her crazy Swedish boyfriend had gone through all my things to look for evidence that his girlfriend was cheating. As you can imagine I do not want to be friends with her anymore. What was that!? It turned out that she had not told her boyfriend that I was staying with and lied about that too. I hate liars and people using drugs. So, you are not surprised if I tell you that I did not see them again. Friendship = over.

I resign!!!

When I worked for a travel agency which was when I was 20 years old and one of my very first jobs I was in charge of the visa department which was only me. I ran to different embassies and filled in forms fixed photos and applications. This was a small family business in the Old Town. Mum , Dad and their children and others worked there. I had to go to the post office and carry with my bare hands very heavy packages and walk with them from the post office to the travel agency. One day I got ill. I had bronchitis almost pneumonia. When I was back at work the Manager and the Assistant Manager wanted to talk to me and asked me to come into their office. They started to ask me about my sickness. The Manager asked me: - Why do you think you got ill?
I got surprised over the strange question and also this was the first time I had been ill and off work. I answered that well maybe because I was running around with my jacket open. I have no idea. I got very angry as it seemed they thought I lied. I even had a medical certificate. Next day I told them that I resign. I worked the days which I had to and left. They had no found a new person and they really needed me. I would never help them but the wife of the manager phoned me and begged me to come on and work some more days. As I am such a kind person I did, but got no extra thanks for that.
Still I would not put up with that kind of nonsense even if I was only 20-years old and for that I am proud. 

Mel Gibson is coming to town!

A long time ago when I worked at Hertz rent a car´s reservation office I knew that my female colleagues at Arlanda airport really loved Mel Gibson so I found his membership number and found a valid flight from the States and booked him a car with a pick up at Arlanda. So the girls were all excited but somehow they were on to me as they could see from where the reservation was done so I was soon found out. So, I cancelled the reservation but still I fooled them for a while with my practical joke...so sorry Mel Gibson is not coming to town...

Donald duck!???

I was watching Youtube clips with my daughter and she showed me clips with people imitating cartoon characters. I know how to sound like Donald Duck. I started to talk like Donald Duck. She laughed her head off. Suddenly my husband showed up newly awake saying: - Did you hear the cat fight!? We both laughed our heads off.

Kick your child just for the fun of it....

A married couple we know had a young daughter of just 4-5 years old. We met the family on the beach and the father played with his daughter. Suddenly he start to kick her behind so she falls in the sand on the beach. He laughs. We cannot understand his behaviour and the mother does nothing. The little girl does not understand either. She gets up and he continues to kick her behind so she falls. He laughs. Some people were not made to be parents...I wonder what he would feel like if his daughter made a move as in the photo..??? Just for the fun of it!  

The wrong Abdullah...

There was a man working with my husband and his name was Abdullah. One day two policemen came to my husbands job and grabbed Abdullah and took him with them and disappeared.  The next day Abdullah was back at work. It turns out he was taken down to the police station and interrogated but then the police realised that they had taken the wrong Abdullah and they let him go. They thought he was an illegal immigrant. I feel so sorry for him to be dragged away from work in front of his colleagues and manager like a criminal!

 

They say it is one in a million

I lost my mother 11th of October 2013 to a monster disease with a super rapid course. Our small family was yet again struck by something strange and very rare. It took my mother 10 weeks to die.
The killer is in the top 10 most fatal diseased in the world. If you contract it you have no chance to survive. Luckily she never knew what struck her as it took the doctors 3 weeks to give her the diagnose and then it was too late to be able to tell her as she then was hallucinating. Her brain was a sponge and the mother we knew were gone. One person in a million contracts this disease. So about 8 people per year in Sweden. I cannot tell you how heartbreaking the whole ordeal was but I do not wish anyone else to go through what I did. Never in my life I thought I would have to answer the question if we would donate my mother´s brain to science when she was still alive. Looking at her so sick sleeping in her bed and I had already promised to give her brain away to science. The disease is called CJD or Jakob Creutzfeldt disease. I have below a few links about CJD. I absolutely hate CJD!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZK7N8WymgU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjsRc_hZ1Wg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9jKVM7ZXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C6Qeoe3mqk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daU1Lx7g6hA