K, yesterday at work this family showed up to go down the river. The woman was 45ish and was holding a stuffed "Scrat." I jokingly asked if it was going with us and she very seriously clutched it and replied "oh yes, he goes everywhere." I *sideways glanced* at the desk manager who continued "ok, so I need you guys to fill out these waivers and make sure you leave anything you don't want to get wet in the car." She made no indication she was leaving the scrat who's name was "Wilson" or something. "Don't worry, he loves the water and no, I'm not mental." I said "please don't take anything on the river that you can't afford to lose and you will need both hands to paddle." "No problem, I'm just going to tie him to me or something." She ended up stuffing it down the front of her PFD. After the trip she came up to me and told me what a good time she had and that Wilson had a great time too. There was a small part of me who desperately wanted to yardsale the boat and see what happened. Oh well, they left a good tip.

5/31/2007 4:26:02 PM

i'm an idiot

[Edited on June 1, 2007 at 11:10 AM. Reason : i even did an edit before and i apologize for not being better at it]

5/31/2007 4:27:10 PM

^ lock. suspend. terminate. nsfw and I'm at work

5/31/2007 4:28:00 PM

^^ ^ lock. suspend. terminate. nsfw and I'm at work

5/31/2007 4:28:59 PM

^^1) I was gonna edit it out til you bitched (misread the IM)
2) Gunzz addressed this a long time ago, but the thread is gone: posting NSFW material as a reply is always fair fame. Whiny bitch.

^Ditto @ you

[Edited on May 31, 2007 at 4:30 PM. Reason : you've all known chitchit is inherently NSFW]

5/31/2007 4:29:27 PM

Uh, about the topic, I once knew a woman in her 60s who carried around a realistic-looking doll all the time. She insisted she wasn't crazy either.

5/31/2007 4:37:25 PM

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"Gunzz addressed this a long time ago, but the thread is gone: posting NSFW material as a reply is always fair fame. "

5/31/2007 4:46:40 PM

I FINALLY just found the thread:

/message_topic.aspx?topic=415121

Now go change your damn tampons.

[Edited on May 31, 2007 at 4:49 PM. Reason : not the thread i wanted, or referenced therein, but this is covered nonetheless]

5/31/2007 4:47:02 PM

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"Now go change your damn tampons."

Was that really necessary for not wanting trash in a regular thread? All I wanted was to share my story and see if anyone else had similar experiences.

Fucking take your porn crusade elsewhere.

5/31/2007 5:04:46 PM

I had a roomate who had a silly putty collection. But he didn't talk to it

5/31/2007 5:25:29 PM

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"posting NSFW material as a reply is always fair fame."

from my understanding of it, i thought that was only in chat chat.

5/31/2007 6:59:48 PM

This was in chit chat. I asked gunzz to move it in hopes that we could actually discuss the topic.

5/31/2007 7:05:31 PM

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"lock. suspend. terminate. nsfw and I'm at work : mad : mad : mad : "

dude, youre at work, and you clicked on a Chit Chat link from ambrosia??

oh shut the fuck up already. i mean wtf, mate, are you STUPID?

i hope your IT guy passes your internet activity along to your senior executives.

by the way, did i mention this is Chit Chat?

:middle finger:




[Edited on May 31, 2007 at 7:07 PM. Reason : ]

5/31/2007 7:05:43 PM

It wasn't a link Einstein. She originally posted the picture.

5/31/2007 7:23:25 PM

yeah shut the fuck up einstein. She originally posted the gif in a completely legitimate thread.

Take your :middle finger: and shove it up your motherfucking ass.

[Edited on May 31, 2007 at 9:13 PM. Reason : .]

5/31/2007 9:12:56 PM

There's so much hatred in this thread...

But to the OP... Yeah, she sounds mental. I'm guessing you are a whitewater rafting guide? And excuse my ignorance, but is yardsaleing the boat flipping it? I don't think I would have been able to resist catching a rock just the right way to knock her or everyone out...

5/31/2007 9:35:13 PM

Ok that is just too damn funny! I didn't bother reading what everyone else said but I would have definitely made sure that she got thrown from the boat...LMAO! Sounds like an awesome job you have there You give discounts to TWWers???

5/31/2007 9:49:27 PM

^^Yeah, "yardsaling" in most sports refers in one way or another to fucking up in dramatic fashion and strewing customers and gear all down the river.

I've never been able to do it intentionally for fear that someone could get hurt for cereal. You can flip boats with guides in them all day long, it's even an event in the annual Olympiad, but the ONE time you did it with civilians there'd no doubt be carnage.

5/31/2007 10:49:30 PM

There is a couple who are regulars down here at Disneyworld who have a roll of towels that they use like a doll. They carry it around in a stroller and take it on the rides and stuff. They brought it into the princess dining a few weeks ago and we had to take pictures with it. When we asked what its name was they said "Towel-baby." She had lost about 5 children in 3 years and went nuts. I'm not sure about him...

5/31/2007 10:55:10 PM

*sideways glance*

5/31/2007 10:58:11 PM

there's a dude i went to high school with that takes one of those gnomes with him everywhere he travels to take pictures with it.

hella. creepy.

5/31/2007 11:02:56 PM

Did the people with her have any reaction to the doll?

And scrat hasn't been around too long... that must be a recent obsession.

Either that, or it's a bet of some sort.

6/1/2007 1:48:34 AM

^^Does he go here, cause he mighta been in the same suite as me in the dorms a few years ago.

6/1/2007 1:59:39 AM

The Playa Haters Ball in here

6/1/2007 4:23:52 AM

it's on the same level as adults who suck their thumbs.

unless she's REALLY mental and hasn't lost her imaginary friends from childhood.

did she have a husband/boyfriend or was it an extended family sort of trip?

6/1/2007 9:19:15 AM

maybe it was an exercise of some sort... I remember in school we had a bear that was passed around to take on trips and things and then write in his "journal" about what he did.

6/1/2007 10:03:59 AM

^ That's the kind of thing you do in elementary school, not when you're 45. And I bet you still didn't tell people whether the bear was enjoying your activities.

6/1/2007 11:02:04 AM

If for whatever reason I was carrying around a stuffed animal you bet I would personify the shit out of it. It's not that I'm crazy, which I might be, but it is expected for someone to refer to something out of place. If she walked in carying a live baby jacklope, would you seriously expect her pretend it wasn't there?

6/1/2007 11:27:49 AM

6/1/2007 11:33:48 AM

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"there's a dude i went to high school with that takes one of those gnomes with him everywhere he travels to take pictures with it. hella. creepy."

my dad did that too I have the pictures somewhere, some were pretty funny.

6/1/2007 11:36:50 AM

The craziest person I came into contact was when I cooked at Applebee's many years ago and a woman came in and ordered a chicken finger basket but asked us to put the food on a plate instead because she was "deathly afraid of baskets."

6/1/2007 11:37:23 AM

was this person carrying around Scrat mentally handicapped at all?

6/1/2007 11:40:01 AM

[Edited on June 1, 2007 at 11:43 AM. Reason : .]

6/1/2007 11:43:21 AM

^^^ that is someone being too damn picky and making up something to get their way. I've had people tell me they are allergic to certain things in a restaurant, and then I've overheard them telling their friends at the table 'thats the best way to make sure they get your order right'... its very annoying.


hahaha I just recently named the dingy for our sailboat 'scrat'. My dad asked why and I said because the damn thing is squirrelly and crazy out on the water. Then I had to explain who scrat was... and the whole thing was downhill from there.. oh well.

6/1/2007 11:56:59 AM

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"was this person carrying around Scrat mentally handicapped at all?"

That's a good point... not cool to make fun of someone if they appear to possibly be autistic or have Asperger's syndrome or something.

6/1/2007 12:03:06 PM

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""Don't worry, he loves the water and no, I'm not mental." "

6/1/2007 12:06:22 PM

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"She insisted she wasn't crazy either."

It's not like a crazy person is going to say that they are crazy. The fact that they volunteer that information without being prompted should be a red flag.

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"and then I've overheard them telling their friends at the table 'thats the best way to make sure they get your order right'... its very annoying."

I've never done this myself but it's probably more annoying getting your order screwed up enough times to where you feel like you need to lie about an allergy to get what you want.

[Edited on June 1, 2007 at 12:37 PM. Reason : -]

6/1/2007 12:29:30 PM

I can see taking a gnome/stuffed animal around if you're traveling by yourself and want to take pictures of where you've been, but want them to be more interesting than just scenery. And the gnome/animal would kind of put the scenery in perspective...

6/1/2007 1:22:33 PM

6/1/2007 1:28:41 PM

the dude i'm referencing did go to state for a brief while and was azn. for those wondering.

but it's not just pictures of this gnome. It's like, him and the gnome. like they are buds or dating.

[Edited on June 1, 2007 at 7:31 PM. Reason : whoa]

6/1/2007 7:30:56 PM

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"was this person carrying around Scrat mentally handicapped at all?"

I'm not talking about a gnome gimmick for shits and giggles. This woman had a family, her mother-in-law was there, her husband and her 20 y.o. son. The woman was alert, responsive and aware of what was going on. I've dealt with customers with many manners of mental handicap... this in no way appeared to be one of those cases. She did not appear to be abnormal in any fashion other than the fact that she was carrying a stuffed animal and treating it as if it were a sentient being.

6/1/2007 9:00:48 PM

i took some classes at Wake Tech in the mid-90's. there was a guy there who on a daily basis,

wore a Burger King paper crown
tied a purple blanket around his shoulders like a cape.
carried a stuffed animal everywhere with him.
kept a telephone handset from a regular old-school type house telephone, with the cord cut off

.

someone who had him in their philosophy class, said he would spend half each class period arguing with the instructor about trivial bullshit. the instructor apparently didnt have the balls to tell him to STFU, so that class period was a waste for everyone. the questions were stupid and appeared to be purposely asked to aggravate the entire class.

i would see him in the library sitting on a couch pretending to talk on the "phone". i could see that he was always looking around self consciously to see if he had an audience. it was like he was purposely trying to draw attention to his ridiculous behavior.

i really got the feeling that he was not mentally handicapped in any way. maybe some sort of personality disorder, but other than that he was aware of his behavior, and chose to do it on purpose just to annoy people.

i also heard that he was a resident of University Towers, and that the UT was trying to get him evicted because he freaked people out and (i think) on the grounds that he lost his student status at NCSU. apparently the guy wouldnt leave quietly, but was filing lawsuits against the UT for discrimination. it was like he was some sort of clever freak, just out to fuck with people

the description of the woman with Scrat sounds similar to this guy.

6/2/2007 3:10:40 AM

I saw an obviously mentally handicapped young woman get an application at Aeropostale when I was shopping there today. It made me feel kinda sad knowing that she'll probably never work there. I mean I know what the laws are, but let's be serious. Everyone in there was in popped collars and flip flops and she was wearing plaid painted-on pants and slippers.

6/2/2007 2:50:49 PM

^She needs them less than they need her.

6/2/2007 7:19:38 PM

theres this highly functional Downs guy who works at a local Starbucks around the corner from where I work.

he does all the general maintenance stuff, cleaning, stocking, what have you...

on the one hand i think its cool that hes found a place to be productive.

on the other hand he keeps trying to clean the island where you get cream and sugar and stuff, right at the busiest time of the morning, and invariably when i'm trying to get stuff for my drink.

I'm 'bout to get all like "wtf, get outta my way tard. cant you see im in a hurry?"

6/3/2007 12:07:09 AM

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"I'm not talking about a gnome gimmick for shits and giggles. This woman had a family, her mother-in-law was there, her husband and her 20 y.o. son. The woman was alert, responsive and aware of what was going on. I've dealt with customers with many manners of mental handicap... this in no way appeared to be one of those cases. She did not appear to be abnormal in any fashion other than the fact that she was carrying a stuffed animal and treating it as if it were a sentient being."

i wasn't talking about a gnome gimmick for shits and giggles either...
there are a lot of mentally handicapped people who are alert, responsive, aware and who have families including children. not all mentally handicapped people bed-ridden vegetables. most mentally handicapped people look just like everybody else, it doesn't affect their physical appearance.

i mean you're the one who saw and interacted with her, but i'm just saying not everybody who's slow looks like they're slow.

6/3/2007 9:40:25 AM