Aren't some people odd.

nicko wrote:Do you still have your purse ?

Original Quill wrote:She probably mistook you for someone she knew--for worse, not better, thus explaining the strange, hostile look on her face.  In mid-greeting she probably realized her mistake...turned and hurried off, quite embarrassed.

We'll never know, but that would be my interpretation of the event.  I just wonder what would have happened had she continued to mistake you for that other person.

Syl wrote:Watch (worn on the other wrist) and all my fingers are intact.

I'm not sure how other people would react if a complete stranger made a beeline for them and deliberately grabbed and squeezed their arm, apologise, and walk quickly away.
It was hardly an assault, though she did actually hurt my arm a bit.


I would know her again I think...tall, blonde hair scraped back in a bun, middle aged and she looked middle class....just an ordinary looking woman acting in an extraordinary fashion really because the expression on her face was one of nastiness as she did this.

HoratioTarr wrote:

Syl wrote:Watch (worn on the other wrist) and all my fingers are intact.

I'm not sure how other people would react if a complete stranger made a beeline for them and deliberately grabbed and squeezed their arm, apologise, and walk quickly away.
It was hardly an assault, though she did actually hurt my arm a bit.


I would know her again I think...tall, blonde hair scraped back in a bun, middle aged and she looked middle class....just an ordinary looking woman acting in an extraordinary fashion really because the expression on her face was one of nastiness as she did this.

She probably thought you were someone else....then realised her mistake.  

Fred Moletrousers wrote:She didn't happen to say "cer iertare", did she?

Syl wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:She didn't happen to say "cer iertare", did she?

She just said "sorry". is that the same thing?

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:

She just said "sorry". is that the same thing?

Means 'forgiveness' in English.  E.g.:

Vă cer iertare pentru aceasta......I apologise most profusely for that.

Possibly an answer.

Syl wrote:She looked just like an ordinary English woman....fair hair and skin.

The odd thing was she said 'sorry' as aggressively as she grabbed my arm, and at the same time.
My OH who saw her thought she was going to snatch my bag, he told me to check she hadn't nicked my purse, but she wasn't after my bag, it was clearly my arm she aimed for.

Im not the nervous type but I admit it did unsettle me for a few minutes.

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:She looked just like an ordinary English woman....fair hair and skin.

The odd thing was she said 'sorry' as aggressively as she grabbed my arm, and at the same time.
My OH who saw her thought she was going to snatch my bag, he told me to check she hadn't nicked my purse, but she wasn't after my bag, it was clearly my arm she aimed for.

Im not the nervous type but I admit it did unsettle me for a few minutes.

Yeah, that's why I thought she was still in an angry mood.  Romanian/Bulgarian/ Moldovan people are not forgiving people.  They think aggressiveness.

eddie wrote:That reminds me of a time I was at a bus stop and this odd woman got off the bus walked right up to me and said my name, right in my face as clear as the day.

She walked off and I shouted after her, “Come back strange lady!”


Your lady may have been a time traveller!
She did something to you in the future and bumped into you today for the thing she did in another tomorrow!
Okay I may have had too many whiskeys.

HoratioTarr wrote:

eddie wrote:That reminds me of a time I was at a bus stop and this odd woman got off the bus walked right up to me and said my name, right in my face as clear as the day.

She walked off and I shouted after her, “Come back strange lady!”


Your lady may have been a time traveller!
She did something to you in the future and bumped into you today for the thing she did in another tomorrow!
Okay I may have had too many whiskeys.

how come your brain works like mine?

Jules wrote:Maybe she was a scout for looking for models, Syl?  
Some supermodels say they got in the profession after being approached and recruited by complete strangers in the street.


Seriously tho, if a stranger grabs my arm aggressively they'd better have a damn good reason!

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

I wonder how people would react if that woman had tried that on somebody with quick reflexes and some martial arts/'self defence' training...

And they put her on the ground with their foot on her neck  ?

Syl wrote:

Jules wrote:Maybe she was a scout for looking for models, Syl?  
Some supermodels say they got in the profession after being approached and recruited by complete strangers in the street.


Seriously tho, if a stranger grabs my arm aggressively they'd better have a damn good reason!

Hey lady ..less of the .
The last wedding I went to the official photographer came up to me later and asked if I would go to his studio to pose for some portraits he could use as ads.....I felt quite flattered till he added he wanted a change from dolly birds.

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:

Hey lady ..less of the .
The last wedding I went to the official photographer came up to me later and asked if I would go to his studio to pose for some portraits he could use as ads.....I felt quite flattered till he added he wanted a change from dolly birds.

Yes, I've used that line...when I was younger.

Now that you have us all writing scripts, I see her as a former prisoner in one of those Bulgarian labor camps, who thought she recognized a former guard and was going for your juggler.  You very nearly got killed in that moment.

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

Yes, I've used that line...when I was younger.

Now that you have us all writing scripts, I see her as a former prisoner in one of those Bulgarian labor camps, who thought she recognized a former guard and was going for your juggler.  You very nearly got killed in that moment.

"...going for your juggler"? Well I'm not sure whether your balls are in the air or dangling at the usual inclination for a male of the species homo sapien, but don't you mean "jugular"?  

Original Quill wrote:

Fred Moletrousers wrote:

"...going for your juggler"? Well I'm not sure whether your balls are in the air or dangling at the usual inclination for a male of the species homo sapien, but don't you mean "jugular"?  

You're right...I stand corrected.  I've always written too fast, and consequently made lots of errors.  But, I trust that our beloved Syl has no testicles whatsoever...so the point is moot.  

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:

Hey lady ..less of the .
The last wedding I went to the official photographer came up to me later and asked if I would go to his studio to pose for some portraits he could use as ads.....I felt quite flattered till he added he wanted a change from dolly birds.

Yes, I've used that line...when I was younger.

Now that you have us all writing scripts, I see her as a former prisoner in one of those Bulgarian labor camps, who thought she recognized a former guard and was going for your juggler.  You very nearly got killed in that moment.

Syl wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

You're right...I stand corrected.  I've always written too fast, and consequently made lots of errors.  But, I trust that our beloved Syl has no testicles whatsoever...so the point is moot.  

Well it has been said on more than one occasion that forum females seem to have bigger balls than the men......

Original Quill wrote:

Syl wrote:

Well it has been said on more than one occasion that forum females seem to have bigger balls than the men......

I second that!  

Vintage wrote:I was in a funeral once and after the interment was over a woman rushed out of the crowd and grabbed my arm, although this lady was spoke, the conversation went sort of:
'Jane, how are you, I haven't seen you ---you are Jane aren't you' because I was presumably looking confused
Me 'um no my name isn't Jane'
Her looking equally bemused and embarrassed 'oh sorry you are the image of Jane ?'
Just mistaken identity - doppleganger?