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10 Jun 2005 08:00 pmWell that's TT over for another year - sadly it ended on a sad note - as a competitor crashed off in the last race, killing both himself and a marshal that he hit - very sad.
But I thought I would just share some of the more surreal moments of my TT with you.
As I have mentioned already this week we run a snack bar (for want of a better description) at our Church. As you come through the entrance there is only one door accessible before the point where we put tables right across the hall to block it. This door has the word 'Toilets' on it in quite big letters, and yet if we had 10p for every time someone asks us 'Do you have a toilet?' during the time we open to sell things we would make hundreds of pounds extra!
We decided on Sunday to add hand drawn 'Ladies' and 'Gents' signs, and after much discussion the versions that got the vote from at least four Church Elders and the Minister have not only 'Ladies' and 'Gents' written on them, but also 'Tarts' and 'Vicars'!!
Apart from the frequent 'Have you got a toilet?' from people standing beside the toilet door, today someone who had just been given his cup of tea and told 'Sugar and milk are on the table beside you' put sugar in his tea, reached out until he had his hand on the jug full of milk, and then asked 'Do you have any milk for the tea?' I'm afraid I answered 'Yes - it's the white stuff in that jug you are holding.' He looked down as if he had never seen anything like it in his life and said 'Oh, well all right then.'
On local radio we have coverage in four languages - English, French, German and Italian, and at one stage I heard Mavis, who does the French coverage, explaining in French how to say 'Hello' to the Fairies at Fairy Bridge in Manx!
One rider, being told by the radio interviewer that he had been given a five second time penalty came out with a few choice expletives, then said 'there again worse things happen at sea - I could be out there right now in an open rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic with no oars, rather than standing here talking to you, and then where would I be?'
Another podium placed rider complained of pigeon shit- strikes slowing him down by obscuring his vision.
And one local competitor with long wavy hair was asked, after coming second in his race, was it true that he was going to celebrate by having his hair cut. He did more for encouraging open discussion of health problems than anyone else I've come across by answering 'No, no, that's just a rumour - I did think about it a couple of weeks ago when I caught nits off the children but the wife got rid of them for me - couple of nights going through it with a nit comb and it's fine now - no need to cut it.'!!
The Manx radio 'man in the pits' was also heard interviewing someone after they'd gone to the loo - including 'Are you alright in there?'
You don't get coverage like that for Formula One!
And finally - in totally none TT related stuff - I'm pimping!![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sockmonkeyhere has put all of her post NFA story 'Re-entry' up on her LJ yesterday - all 20 Chapters, one at a time. Starring, amongst others, The Littlest Slayer, Spike, Illyria AND Fred. I read this on ff.net a couple of months ago, a place I hardly ever venture, and was so entranced by it that I stayed up ages after my bed-time to finish it. So, especially if you don't like WIPs, get over there - start at Chapter One, and keep going!!
But I thought I would just share some of the more surreal moments of my TT with you.
As I have mentioned already this week we run a snack bar (for want of a better description) at our Church. As you come through the entrance there is only one door accessible before the point where we put tables right across the hall to block it. This door has the word 'Toilets' on it in quite big letters, and yet if we had 10p for every time someone asks us 'Do you have a toilet?' during the time we open to sell things we would make hundreds of pounds extra!
We decided on Sunday to add hand drawn 'Ladies' and 'Gents' signs, and after much discussion the versions that got the vote from at least four Church Elders and the Minister have not only 'Ladies' and 'Gents' written on them, but also 'Tarts' and 'Vicars'!!
Apart from the frequent 'Have you got a toilet?' from people standing beside the toilet door, today someone who had just been given his cup of tea and told 'Sugar and milk are on the table beside you' put sugar in his tea, reached out until he had his hand on the jug full of milk, and then asked 'Do you have any milk for the tea?' I'm afraid I answered 'Yes - it's the white stuff in that jug you are holding.' He looked down as if he had never seen anything like it in his life and said 'Oh, well all right then.'
On local radio we have coverage in four languages - English, French, German and Italian, and at one stage I heard Mavis, who does the French coverage, explaining in French how to say 'Hello' to the Fairies at Fairy Bridge in Manx!
One rider, being told by the radio interviewer that he had been given a five second time penalty came out with a few choice expletives, then said 'there again worse things happen at sea - I could be out there right now in an open rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic with no oars, rather than standing here talking to you, and then where would I be?'
Another podium placed rider complained of pigeon shit- strikes slowing him down by obscuring his vision.
And one local competitor with long wavy hair was asked, after coming second in his race, was it true that he was going to celebrate by having his hair cut. He did more for encouraging open discussion of health problems than anyone else I've come across by answering 'No, no, that's just a rumour - I did think about it a couple of weeks ago when I caught nits off the children but the wife got rid of them for me - couple of nights going through it with a nit comb and it's fine now - no need to cut it.'!!
The Manx radio 'man in the pits' was also heard interviewing someone after they'd gone to the loo - including 'Are you alright in there?'
You don't get coverage like that for Formula One!
And finally - in totally none TT related stuff - I'm pimping!
sockmonkeyhere has put all of her post NFA story 'Re-entry' up on her LJ yesterday - all 20 Chapters, one at a time. Starring, amongst others, The Littlest Slayer, Spike, Illyria AND Fred. I read this on ff.net a couple of months ago, a place I hardly ever venture, and was so entranced by it that I stayed up ages after my bed-time to finish it. So, especially if you don't like WIPs, get over there - start at Chapter One, and keep going!!