My most gullible momentSomeone once told me that gullible wasn't in the dictionary and I went, "yeah yeah ha ha" but when they were gone that didn't stop me checking. What was YOUR most gullible moment? Zero points for buying an icon on b3ta.
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rob, Thu 21 Aug 2008, 18:33)
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French taps are differentWhen I was 15 I had a school trip to Paris for a week. It was my first trip abroad, my first stay away from home and to say I was innocent would be a gross understatement.
Anyhow, one evening our teachers took us to a restaurant. I wanted a drink of water and so I went over to help myself from a convenient tap. However, it being French and me being English, I couldn't work out how to make the water come out. I could see nothing to turn or press or pull or whatever and, in desperation, turned to a waiter, who, through mime, managed to convince me that the water came out by blowing on the tap.
I was amazed. This was, after all, a completely different country. Different culture, different technology. That sort of thing.
I didn't work out I'd been fooled until I went for more water a little later and again couldn't make the tap work, no matter how I blowed on it.
(, Fri 22 Aug 2008, 14:50, Reply)
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