Overheard…

in Mr. Video (video & dvd rental franchise)
Guy: How about this one? (holds up a DVD cover and looks at it)
Girl: Let me see… (takes the cover fro him). Aaah. I know about this one. My sister rented it a few weeks ago.
Guy: And… what did she have to say about it? Is it any [...]

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(Almost) beaten into submission

Criticism is a bitch, innit? I can’t think of anything worse, except death and taxes. It hurts even more so when it comes from someone you respect and when you realise that they may be correct in what they say.
It is not that I do not appreciate good advice, but sometimes people tell you things [...]

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Swimming upstream

The gf and I are having dinner with her parents tomorrow night. Pffft. Dinner with her parents is like walking into the lion’s den covered in the blood of a freshly slaughtered animal. I exaggerate of course, but these encounters can be pretty harrowing.
It is not that I cannot stand the prospective in-laws. They are [...]

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Dumbfounded….

is when you catch a glimpse of the driver of the vehicle who forced you to move over to the middle lane, as she drives past you at a speed in excess of 140km/h while talking on her cell phone and realize that she is… YOUR MOTHER!
Now there is something you do not want to [...]

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Walking with the brakes on

Walking comes as easy as breathing… well… perhaps not as easy, because it talks a while before you are ready to take those first steps. But you get my point… walking is not a difficult exercise. I’ve been doing it for a while now, and I do not have any trouble with it at all.
When [...]

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