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Being in a wheelchair is'nt all bad, the grand kids love to push grandma really fast [so they think] and ride on the back whilst grandma fakes shrieks of fear. We do get some wierd looks, but who cares, it's great fun. It's always strange to see a lot of people who think being in a wheelchair makes one deaf, and shout, always in a slow voice, as though the occupant is nuts as well. We also get people who will address conversation to me, although they are refering to Eve. Why, I don't know, but it happens a lot and it's most irritating. Eve will often say 'I just can't walk, I'm not deaf or stupid'.
By the way, she's only 4 ft 11in while I'm 6ft 1in. Which also gets a laugh. My dad used to say she'd have to stand on a box to put her hat on.
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Maybe I need a Minder.Be assured Linda I have my ways of retaliating though and I've put my share of suggestions in their litle boxes over the years to disappear into a big black hole.Being a gentle soul it's not my way to shout and holler.
Most customers are really mannerly but some come from places where the notion of the queue is not recognised -not like sum of us who was born to it.
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I remember queuing for chips at that chippie near Thackers on Hough Lane during the war, there used to be a thick blanket over the door for the blackout. We`d just got into the shop when this "gentleman" came through the curtain, straight to the counter and stated his order. The chippie man said "Join the queue" to which he replied "Don`t you know who I am? I`m the Works Superintendent at ........ and I don`t queue for anything!" The retort came back "I don`t care you are, no queue, no chips, so get in the queue" He promptly left, and no, he didn`t get any chips. (name withheld to protect his family) Cheers, Bill
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Cheers to the Chippy Man.Not freet of anyone.Practising Lancashire dialect as don't want to be 'fraffly posh'
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Lady G, I wouldn`t bother trying to cultivate a Lancashire accent. I`ve just been to the Sunday market and heard very little Yorkshire accent, I can`t recognise the accents from Eastern Europe, and people with what seems to be broad Yorkshire accent generally have very dark skins. I`ve lived here for nearly 45 years, and still get told that I`m a Lanc, by my accent. Does sign language have an accent? From `t wrong side `t Pennines,Cheerio, Bill.
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The last time I came home people who didn't know I was Lancashire thought I was South African -so there you go - and I've been here so long that I confuse Lancashire and Yorkshire dialects.It can't get worse than that.
In the 40's it was common at grammar school for teachers to try to neutralise our accents with constant recital of poetry and lots of vowel sounds.Very painful.I can still remember a lot of it.Plus the elocution type lines like "Seven silver swans swimming in the Severn" etc.
Anyway St Patrick's Day today a bit before yours so to any Irish folk a happy day.
On this day in 1964 Gracie Fields was in a taxi here coming from the Airport for a visit when the driver sang a bit of the Maori Farewell song and she learned it and sang it many times.'Now is the hour'
A bit of trivia on the radio this morning that I thought I would share.Gracie is my favourite of all time.
Off the topic -sorry Martin.
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still get told that I`m a Lanc, by my accent.
In 1952 my great-uncle and his family emigrated to NZ, assisted passage. His mother (my great-grandmother) was emigrating with the family, but wasn't eligible for assisted passage so she went by sea in style on her own, stopping off at various ports en route. She got in a taxi for a trip into town when they docked at Sydney and was immediately asked by the taxi driver which part of Lancashire she came from! Turned out he'd originally come from only a mile or two away from Granny's home street! Small world!
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A couple of years ago, we were approached by a man and his wife in Dinan, asking in bad French for a bank . When he heard we were from Lancashire, he exclaimed in great relief 'Eee, I'm right glad!'
]) but so are your fellow customers. Surely it's good manners, if you know someone was in the queue before yourself to say to the assistant, when she comes to serve you, "This lady was before me"? Anything else is queue-jumping and jolly bad form, what!
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