What do you do that you know is "tacky" but you do it anyway?
Jun 23rd, 2006, 01:22 PM
#61
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 400
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Noooo....I go away for six months and thingorjus gets banned...
Please tell me we still have m_kingdom.
(To stay on topic, for tackiness, as a student I always collected the free miniature bottles of spirits you're offered on transatlantic flights. I only drink water on planes so I'd leave the plane with a bag full of obscure spirits for our next cocktail party).
Please tell me we still have m_kingdom.
(To stay on topic, for tackiness, as a student I always collected the free miniature bottles of spirits you're offered on transatlantic flights. I only drink water on planes so I'd leave the plane with a bag full of obscure spirits for our next cocktail party).
Jun 23rd, 2006, 02:05 PM
#66
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 2,759
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Ira, I don't know if you win or not, but you are NOT the man I thought you were...
My own brand of tacky is food-related, too...I cannot bear to order the same dish as my table mates for fear I am missing something. I try to limit this nasty prediliction to folks I know really well, preferably am related to, because the flip-side is that I demand to taste their food.
My own brand of tacky is food-related, too...I cannot bear to order the same dish as my table mates for fear I am missing something. I try to limit this nasty prediliction to folks I know really well, preferably am related to, because the flip-side is that I demand to taste their food.
Jun 23rd, 2006, 02:54 PM
#67
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 2,527
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
You people are too funny. Gin on the cereal, gotta try it!
kopp, have you been checking out the Spanish and Argentinian teams...
Ira, my sweet southern aunt very discreetly always adds sugar to her lemon water...
Nobody in my family would ever steal a hotel towel, but we seem to have a thing for those cellophane wrapped packets of tasteless crackers...
My mother wraps restaurant food in ratty pieces of kleenex and feeds it to hungry looking dogs (believe me, I am not reccommending this!)
I've washed my feet in bidets & sinks more times than I care to remember...
I washed almost my entire body in a public park stream and then changed into a nice wedding outfit (in the front seat of a Karmin Ghia, no less)after a hot drive across the Utah desert rushing to get to a wedding...
I always look into open hotel rooms...
I wash out & re-use plastic sandwich bags -- and hey, aren't you supposed to re-use those dryer sheets? These seem more like common sense than tackiness!
ultimate tacky: childhood friends whose father worked for a competing airline (we were TWA, they were NW) brought lunch to school in...airline barf bags. Well, TWA is the one that went kaput, so maybe they were on to something...
kopp, have you been checking out the Spanish and Argentinian teams...
Ira, my sweet southern aunt very discreetly always adds sugar to her lemon water...
Nobody in my family would ever steal a hotel towel, but we seem to have a thing for those cellophane wrapped packets of tasteless crackers...
My mother wraps restaurant food in ratty pieces of kleenex and feeds it to hungry looking dogs (believe me, I am not reccommending this!)
I've washed my feet in bidets & sinks more times than I care to remember...
I washed almost my entire body in a public park stream and then changed into a nice wedding outfit (in the front seat of a Karmin Ghia, no less)after a hot drive across the Utah desert rushing to get to a wedding...
I always look into open hotel rooms...
I wash out & re-use plastic sandwich bags -- and hey, aren't you supposed to re-use those dryer sheets? These seem more like common sense than tackiness!
ultimate tacky: childhood friends whose father worked for a competing airline (we were TWA, they were NW) brought lunch to school in...airline barf bags. Well, TWA is the one that went kaput, so maybe they were on to something...
Jun 23rd, 2006, 03:00 PM
#68
Join Date: Sep 2004
Posts: 45,322
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Hi Kopp, drooling over the soccer players, yes that is me, lol! In the small town I use to live in we got RAI1 on Sundays..I loved to watch the various Italy city soccer games. I don't get that station where I live now.
And, bummer, the Italian soccer players now wear long and baggy shorts, I loved their former uniform.
And, bummer, the Italian soccer players now wear long and baggy shorts, I loved their former uniform.
Jun 23rd, 2006, 03:49 PM
#71
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 6,425
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I would have to say wearing socks more than once....ooooo..
Taking a few things off the breakfast buffet to make my children lunch as I order something wonderful from a menu at lunch... well, that was when they were littler and did not know the difference.
I have hung things out a window to dry and then it got stolen so I don't do that anymore.
Well, there may be other things but cant think of them at the moment.
Taking a few things off the breakfast buffet to make my children lunch as I order something wonderful from a menu at lunch... well, that was when they were littler and did not know the difference.
I have hung things out a window to dry and then it got stolen so I don't do that anymore.
Well, there may be other things but cant think of them at the moment.
Jun 23rd, 2006, 05:17 PM
#72
Oh I am laughing out loud!!!Balenciaga takes the prize!! Is it true about big hands? Inquiring minds want to know.
TWA barf bags for school lunches was good too.
I have stolen a hotel towel or two in my travels. I have stolen the washcloths more often. I don't know why. I guess I need those at home more.
I have taken ashtrays in the old days with the hotel name on them. I guess when I did smoke I enjoyed smoking in a Hilton ash tray.
I wear white any time I feel like it, long after labor day and definitely before memorial day.
I have taken things off of the breakfast buffet to eat later in the day.
I always take a safety pin in my purse when I am wearing a fancy dress just in case the zipper breaks. I have never had to use it for myself, but I did lend it to someone at a wedding once.
My kids steal all the shampoos, creams, sewing kits and shower caps that are given out. I usually don't even know they have all this till we get home. My one daughter had about 20 sewing kits in her backpack. I mean really...she is a very loved child.... I guess stealing hotel items is a hereditary thing..Of course her's were freebies... LOL.
Have enjoyed this thread...good laughs.
TWA barf bags for school lunches was good too.
I have stolen a hotel towel or two in my travels. I have stolen the washcloths more often. I don't know why. I guess I need those at home more.
I have taken ashtrays in the old days with the hotel name on them. I guess when I did smoke I enjoyed smoking in a Hilton ash tray.
I wear white any time I feel like it, long after labor day and definitely before memorial day.
I have taken things off of the breakfast buffet to eat later in the day.
I always take a safety pin in my purse when I am wearing a fancy dress just in case the zipper breaks. I have never had to use it for myself, but I did lend it to someone at a wedding once.
My kids steal all the shampoos, creams, sewing kits and shower caps that are given out. I usually don't even know they have all this till we get home. My one daughter had about 20 sewing kits in her backpack. I mean really...she is a very loved child.... I guess stealing hotel items is a hereditary thing..Of course her's were freebies... LOL.
Have enjoyed this thread...good laughs.
Jun 23rd, 2006, 10:04 PM
#73
Join Date: Feb 2006
Posts: 1,850
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
If I am in an uncomfortable social situation I fake dialing a call (using the time to put the phone on silent) and then step away to "talk." I almost always have my fake conversations in Spanish and I make up fictitious participants, normally named Patri and María.
When I babysit for particularly beautiful children and people think they are mine, I do not correct them.
I sometimes change the screensavers on public computers to unlabelled pictures of myself.
I break into a full out run to catch public transportation.
When I babysit for particularly beautiful children and people think they are mine, I do not correct them.
I sometimes change the screensavers on public computers to unlabelled pictures of myself.
I break into a full out run to catch public transportation.
Jun 24th, 2006, 12:14 AM
#74
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 1,323
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Nina isn't my real name .... it is um, um, um, Edith. I only saying that so that I won't be recognized and stoned.
One of the first things that I do on international flights (we upgrade to biz) is go to the bathrooms and pour that horrible perfume down the drain.
Because it is free, people, mainly women, pour it all over themselves. My delicate sense of smell (read that as being allergic to perfume, etc.) can't take it and I usually get a headache that lasts the entire flight -
As soon as we are allowed to use the bathrooms, I start the 100 yard dash, make a mad dash, usually beating out the other passengers - I can hear DH giggle as I make the I start the 100 yard dash ;-)
Air France used to have to worst smelling stuff - really bad, Toilet Eau d'Seine.
Edith aka: Nina
One of the first things that I do on international flights (we upgrade to biz) is go to the bathrooms and pour that horrible perfume down the drain.
Because it is free, people, mainly women, pour it all over themselves. My delicate sense of smell (read that as being allergic to perfume, etc.) can't take it and I usually get a headache that lasts the entire flight -
As soon as we are allowed to use the bathrooms, I start the 100 yard dash, make a mad dash, usually beating out the other passengers - I can hear DH giggle as I make the I start the 100 yard dash ;-)
Air France used to have to worst smelling stuff - really bad, Toilet Eau d'Seine.
Edith aka: Nina
Jun 24th, 2006, 12:32 AM
#75
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 1,323
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I have an over the top sense of fairness. I drive myself and DH absolutely nuts.
For many years we flew coach, domestic and international before we began upgrading to business with FF miles.
When I was in coach, as much as I wanted to, I NEVER went through that forbidden little curtain to go the the biz bathroom, as tempting as it was even when the coach line was pretty long.
I absolutely hate it when I am going toward the bathroom (which is directly in front of the coach section), and one or more people are coming in from coach and I have to wait in line behind them.
Therefore, I have appointed myself the Business Class Bathroom Monitor. I now tell them, quietly of course, that this is OUR bathroom and they are not allowed to use it.
I always tell the flight attendants what I am doing, and nine out of ten times, they laugh and say that it drives them nuts too and that they are glad that I have taken over the responsibility of protecting what is rightfully ours'!
I don't run back to the rear of biz class (we are usually in the bulkhead seats), every time an interloper crosses our boundry, I only assert 'my authority' when I have to use it myself.
Hmmmmmm do I sound like I am obsessed with airplane bathrooms???? Hey, it's a looooong flight and there's nothing like a little obsessive-compulsive behavior to relieve the bordom.
Nina
For many years we flew coach, domestic and international before we began upgrading to business with FF miles.
When I was in coach, as much as I wanted to, I NEVER went through that forbidden little curtain to go the the biz bathroom, as tempting as it was even when the coach line was pretty long.
I absolutely hate it when I am going toward the bathroom (which is directly in front of the coach section), and one or more people are coming in from coach and I have to wait in line behind them.
Therefore, I have appointed myself the Business Class Bathroom Monitor. I now tell them, quietly of course, that this is OUR bathroom and they are not allowed to use it.
I always tell the flight attendants what I am doing, and nine out of ten times, they laugh and say that it drives them nuts too and that they are glad that I have taken over the responsibility of protecting what is rightfully ours'!
I don't run back to the rear of biz class (we are usually in the bulkhead seats), every time an interloper crosses our boundry, I only assert 'my authority' when I have to use it myself.
Hmmmmmm do I sound like I am obsessed with airplane bathrooms???? Hey, it's a looooong flight and there's nothing like a little obsessive-compulsive behavior to relieve the bordom.
Nina
Jun 24th, 2006, 04:00 AM
#77
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 74,699
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Hi annabelle,
>I washed almost my entire body in a public park stream ...<
I see that you are also a member of "La Société des Baigneurs Publics".
Once, when we had anchored our boat (Mediterranean style - which caused quite a stir) at a public dock in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, I took a shower at the town pump - using a bucket.
In the midst of my ablutions, the ferry pulled in.
I think I was the highlight of the visit for about a dozen families.
>I washed almost my entire body in a public park stream ...<
I see that you are also a member of "La Société des Baigneurs Publics".
Once, when we had anchored our boat (Mediterranean style - which caused quite a stir) at a public dock in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, I took a shower at the town pump - using a bucket.
In the midst of my ablutions, the ferry pulled in.
I think I was the highlight of the visit for about a dozen families.
Jun 24th, 2006, 09:20 AM
#79
Join Date: Jan 2003
Posts: 49,560
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
After a long day of trekking around European capitals, I fill the bidet with ice, grab a glass of wine, and soak my tootsies - delish!
I torment the British market stall guy in Le Bugue by speaking rapid-fire French to him and pretending I don't understand a word of his responses (which I don't - jeez, you've been there 10 years! Learn some French, Rodney!).
I torment the British market stall guy in Le Bugue by speaking rapid-fire French to him and pretending I don't understand a word of his responses (which I don't - jeez, you've been there 10 years! Learn some French, Rodney!).
Jun 24th, 2006, 10:20 AM
#80
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 2,552
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
This is such a great thread!! A bit of relief on a dreary, humid, pouring down day in NYC...
I take at least one spoon from the flight (used to be metal, now plastic) so that I can be sure to be able to indulge my obsession with European yogurt (well, all things dairy, but yogurt becomes tricky without a spoon!). If I forget on the plane, then wherever happens to be the first café becomes the target.
In a cheap Paris hotel room one December, my friend and I put twelve yogurts and various other perishable purchases on the window ledge during our week's stay.
At the end of that trip, *somehow* not all the yogurt was eaten. I brought it on the plane and proceeded to eat three yogurts in succession - I couldn't bear to see all that lovely dairy go to waste! The woman who happened to get the seat next to me finally blurted out "You do know that the airline feeds, you, right?"
I take at least one spoon from the flight (used to be metal, now plastic) so that I can be sure to be able to indulge my obsession with European yogurt (well, all things dairy, but yogurt becomes tricky without a spoon!). If I forget on the plane, then wherever happens to be the first café becomes the target.
In a cheap Paris hotel room one December, my friend and I put twelve yogurts and various other perishable purchases on the window ledge during our week's stay.
At the end of that trip, *somehow* not all the yogurt was eaten. I brought it on the plane and proceeded to eat three yogurts in succession - I couldn't bear to see all that lovely dairy go to waste! The woman who happened to get the seat next to me finally blurted out "You do know that the airline feeds, you, right?"
