Last weekend I went to the scout-in, a weekend-long congres/party for dutch scout-leaders and staff. I worked in the scoutshop all weekend and had a real blast selling all kinds of neat stuff to (mostly) really, really nice people. The nights were a bit rough since the last party-people stopped yelling and singing around the same time the first people of the housekeeping staff entered the field to clean up after them. Also, I encountered a phenomenon completely new to me: the 'let's have a wee on someone else's tent man'(hence called 'pisser'). There sure were a lot of those pissers around because everytime I walked on the backside of the scoutshop-tent I spotted at least three of them urinating in unison (synchronised pissers) on our shiny tent. At first I thought that someone accidentally put a toilet sign on our shop but that wasn't the case. Fact was that the nearest toilet was about 50 metres away and most men found it difficult to walk such a distance with a full bladder.
To save our shop from the pissers, three of the shop's staffmembers, including myself, decided to form a anti-pisser swat (hence called the s.o.t.t. (save our tent team)). Armed with a maglite (4D, for pro's) and a whistle (fox 40 for pro's) we guarded the tent and attacked any pisser around. The procedure was quite simple: we would capture our victim in the beam of the maglite and then run towards him while whistling. This procedure proved very effective: most pissers ran away with the gear hanging out or froze in shock. Unfortunately for the pissers, we were bored very quickly so we had to come up with an upgrade for our procedure. We started measuring the pissers private parts and compare them with maglites (mini, D, 2D, 3D etc.) The majority of the pissers found this new kind harassment quite threatening so within a few minutes they were all gone and left us unemployed.
All in all I had a great weekend and to all men I say: before you have a wee, look around you and if you see three ladies with a large flashlight, give up and find the nearest toilet. Beware of the anti-pisser swat!
Monday, September 26, 2005
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Exciting story #1
Since I haven't come up with an exciting story just jet (and since nobody has felt the urge to comment on my introduction), I'm forced to take drastic measures. This means that I'll have to tell you about my experiences in this world full of digital obstacles. For a digitally challenged person, such as myself, this world can be overwhelming, frightning, frustrating and challenging at the same time. It seems that even simple everyday actions require skills digitally challenged people don't have (and will never have (for all that matters)). For instance: I received a letter from my bank last week in which they told me that from now on I am forced to use internet banking. This causes several problems for me. The first problem is that I don't understand HOW it works. The second problem seems to be that I don't understand WHEN it works (I have paid my rent twice this month because I thought it didn't work properly the first time I tried it). The third problem is that IF it works, I can't make it STOP working. I am now paying my insurance fees every week instead of every month and I have no clue how to make it stop. I'm about an inch of being completely broke for this month and it seems that I have accidentally extended my creditline so I will probably be broke for the months to come unless ANYONE helps me with my little bankingproblems.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Welcome
Welcome to my brand new weblog. I hope to be posting exciting stories soon but until then, this minor introduction will have to do. My name is Femke, I'm 24 years old and a student of the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. I like books, movies and coffee. I dislike vegetables, people living like vegetables and tea. Seems to me that you now know enough of me so until the exciting stories come, you'll just have to find something else to do.
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