Crazy Interactions

Do you ever have a strange interaction, or conversation with someone, and its strangeness doesn't really dawn on you until after the interaction is over?  Well I had an experience like this last weekend.  I was walking at the Gateway when some guy motioned me over to him.  He was selling something, and I really did not want to go over there, but he looked desperate and I decided I'd at least humor him and let him talk to me.  Well he starts talking about water conservation, which wasn't that bad of a topic compared to what it could have been.  Well, he comments on my earrings and he had some ear art himself so I commented on that.  Well this just opened a whole new door.  He started pointing to all the places he'd had pierced and he proceeds to point to his nipples and said.  "Yeah I had these pierced once, but then it got ripped out."  I was just sort of nodding my head then he keeps going and says "It hurt worse than getting ran over by a car and yes I have had that happen too, so now I just stick to getting tattoos less can happen with those."  He then continued to tell me about the tattoo that took up his whole back it was a landscape of Ireland, turns out he'd never even been there. I'm just glad he didn't pull off his shirt to show me that REALLY would have taken it too far.  This guy just made my day, it's interactions like this that made me realize some people are really good at just being themselves even in front of a perfect stranger.

The Six Letter Wonder!

Many of you know one of my greatest friends of all times who I lovingly refer to as the six letter wonder, others refer to her as Ali Pew.  Well, pretty much every where we go together without fail someone always asks us "are you sisters?"  As many of you know, I'm a triplet and I can remember one time, ONE TIME only, when a stranger asked us,  "are you you triplets?" and it turns out that person was a triplet too, so they had some kind of triplet sensing super power. It's just funny to me when your real sisters don't even look like your sisters, and your best friend looks like your sister.  Maybe, people who look alike attract to each other.  You've heard those stories of couples that start looking alike, maybe when you've been friends with someone for so long you start to look alike.  Whatever it is I'm honored to be the "sister" of the six letter wonder. 

Pictures compliments of Jane M. and Jane B.'s Blogs.

Doctor Doctor

When I was in Japan I went to a Japanese bath house, you pretty much have to if you go there. While I'd love to talk about naked time with a lot of random Japanese ladies I'm here to tell you about something a little more interesting. At the bath house they have a big hot tub looking pool (but the water was cold) of mini fish. They look a lot like guppies. Well these are no ordinary fish, they're called Doctor Fish. You put your legs in this small pool and the fish come eat the dead skin off of your legs and feet. I was a little apprehensive and grossed out by the whole thing at first. I mean you have hundreds of little fish biting your dead skin off.  After you get over the initial put in of the feet, it became quite relaxing... well that is until I started to think about it again. Apparently, these fish feed off of dead skin alone, so the second your legs hit the tub they're going to town on them. Looks a lot like this.

I definitely wouldn't have put my head in there, but I don't think I really had the option, thank goodness. This is what I call a brave brave man, or a man with a lot of dry skin either one works.

Now ask yourself, what kind of person are you? Would you put your head in with those fish?