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Did ever happen to you those weird or annoying coincidences or repetitions? Those things that keep happening to you repeatedly for a period of time, that never happened before (or happened often), and then they fade away again? Well I am in such week.
Last Friday I met a person at the pub. Friend of a friend. We were chatting and when that person found out I am from Portugal, he said “Hey, I have a friend in Portugal: Joao. Do you know him?”. After a few moments of silence I felt I needed to reply, otherwise I might have sounded rude: “Well, I know many people named Joao in Portugal. Not sure if one of them is your friend… After all Portugal has around 11 millions people…”. I am sure he wasn’t that happy with the answer, as he answered right back “He is a big lad, 6 foot tall, black hair.” I was not totally sure if he was winding me up or if he was serious. But he was serious. I was speechless. I could not think of any reply to that. I just said :”To your portuguese friend Joao”, raised my glass and drank the rest of my beer (I was not at my pub, so there was beer available).
The funny thing is that, since friday, about six other people asked me a similar question “Oh, I have a friend Maria in Portugal. Do you know her?” or “I am sure you know Manuel… He lives in Lisbon”. I have to start counting the number of times this happens for the rest of this week.
Next time I will definitely reply back: “Sure I know him/her. We are friends with Sean. You know Sean, he lives in Ireland”. I wonder if I will get any response to that?.. Any other way I should reply back? Suggestions needed.
At the end of the day, I guess it is nice having these less common moments. After all, this is just a pub with no beer, so at times things can get very boring around here.
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A week of daft moments…
07/09/2011
Random stuff, Too much beer
Image: photostock / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
Did ever happen to you those weird or annoying coincidences or repetitions? Those things that keep happening to you repeatedly for a period of time, that never happened before (or happened often), and then they fade away again? Well I am in such week.
Last Friday I met a person at the pub. Friend of a friend. We were chatting and when that person found out I am from Portugal, he said “Hey, I have a friend in Portugal: Joao. Do you know him?”. After a few moments of silence I felt I needed to reply, otherwise I might have sounded rude: “Well, I know many people named Joao in Portugal. Not sure if one of them is your friend… After all Portugal has around 11 millions people…”. I am sure he wasn’t that happy with the answer, as he answered right back “He is a big lad, 6 foot tall, black hair.” I was not totally sure if he was winding me up or if he was serious. But he was serious. I was speechless. I could not think of any reply to that. I just said :”To your portuguese friend Joao”, raised my glass and drank the rest of my beer (I was not at my pub, so there was beer available).
The funny thing is that, since friday, about six other people asked me a similar question “Oh, I have a friend Maria in Portugal. Do you know her?” or “I am sure you know Manuel… He lives in Lisbon”. I have to start counting the number of times this happens for the rest of this week.
Next time I will definitely reply back: “Sure I know him/her. We are friends with Sean. You know Sean, he lives in Ireland”. I wonder if I will get any response to that?.. Any other way I should reply back? Suggestions needed.
At the end of the day, I guess it is nice having these less common moments. After all, this is just a pub with no beer, so at times things can get very boring around here.
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