Ex's nan
She was a lovely old bid, as they all are.
But she had 2 odd things about her, one was impressively odd, the other was just odd.

Every week she used to give the ex and I a choccy bar or some other normally lovely sweetie type snack, (this is the impressively odd one), but not once in 5 years was any of them in date.
In the sense that if it was the 1st may 2000, we'd get a galaxy bar that went out of date on 28th April 1995.
Every week she'd give us a kit-kat, or mars bar that was nearly always EXACTLY 5 years out of date.
The only time she ever broke this rule was just before christmas 1997 when I got given a Marathon bar, and i last saw them in about 1988.


The second thing about her is the fact that flowers are to difficult to look after, and her front garden is full of lovely neat and cared for plastic flowers.
Have you ever walked down a road that is full of oxygen thiefs and seen them all gently pruning their queen liz roses and trimming lawns with nail scissors then all of a sudden seen some daft old blue-rinser with a bucket of soapy water cleaning the dust off her plastic plants by UPROOTING them (she does actually put them in the ground) and dunking them in her yellow bucket before putting them back in the ground.

But i'm not sure whether i'd call her eccentric or not, she was more freaky then an off-licence full of Amy winehouse fans, but she could hold a sensible conversation.
(Mensa Reject has gone out, I'll be back on, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 2:10, 2 replies)

aha, but that's exactly what made her eccentric rather than mad
i think that most people posting on here forget that to be really eccentric you still have to be fairly lucid and on mental terra firma - you just act really odd as well.
( the brass moustache putting the ass moust in brache since, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 12:07, closed)

Got to agree there
that's excentric... I want to be like that when I grow up!!
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 21:20, closed)