Surprise!Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver asks: Ever given granny a heart attack on her 90th birthday or knocked down the wall between the living room and kitchen by mistake before the wife gets home? Tell us tales of surprises and their fluffy and/or messy endings.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 12:10)
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Surprise.My workmate Rod went to Lake Baikal, just north of Mongolia, on some Greenpeace-related business. After a 3,000 mile rail journey in freezing conditions, taking many days during which he couldn't eat any of the train food (Rod's a vegetarian, which doesn't help, but anyway) he arrived at a cheap, dark 'n' shabby hotel in Irkutsk where he'd made a reservation. But it seemed there was a mix-up and they didn't have a room for him, he didn't speak much Russian, they spoke no English and he was hallucinating with exhaustion and hunger and facing a night on the snowy streets in the Middle Of Bastard Nowhere.
When suddenly, an sound of an unmistakably American voice glided over his shoulder "Is there a problem here? Can I help at all?". Rod really thought his mind had gone when he turned round and saw that it was... Richard Gere, who was visiting on some dalai lama-based business. "That was a surprise", said Rod.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Thu 4 Apr 2013, 17:16,
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Sounds like "Russian Cucumber Disease"Which a mate of mine contracted on the Trans-Siberian just before Gorbachev took over. Cucumbers were in plentiful supply on the train, but nothing else was.
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I really hope this is a true story(, Fri 5 Apr 2013, 10:09, closed)
It really is, I promise.Though Rod's telling of it was more epic - about 15 minutes so the Gere-based climax was a knockout.
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fred zeppelin II: Electric Boogaloo, Fri 5 Apr 2013, 10:53,
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