General Chat

Thanks everyone - you've made me smile.

Shoes: My mother as a young "lady" went to town on the tram and as she was stepping down on to the pavement found she had two navy and white shoes on but they were not a matching pair.
It spoilt her day - so embarassed she got on the next tram back and went home.
Where as a friend of mine did this deliberately - I had a pair of navy shoes and she had a pair exactly the same in Navy so we spent our day at work with one navy foot and one white one. It stimulated quite a lot of conversations - we worked in a huge office of around 100 people.

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What do you do when the doorbell rings and you haven't got your teeth in? Especially when it's that good looking postman with the parcel you're hoping will be delivered to-day?

I have got in the shower with my hearing aids still in, and only realised it in time because the water flow sounds so loud!

This isn't about glasses, but I often spend quite a bit of time looking for mine when they're on my head. No this is about shoes - a few years ago, when my hubby was getting on the train at Victoria he caught his foot and his shoe came off and fell down the gap onto the track. So journey home to Sussex and 15 minute walk home from the station, feeling a pr*t, with only one shoe on. I still laugh when I think about it!

lol Shirley.....

The word shampoo in English is derived from Hindi chāmpo (चाँपो [tʃãːpoː]) and dates to 1762. The Hindi word referred to head massage, usually with some form of hair oil. Similar words also occur in other North Indian languages. The word and the service of head massage were introduced to Britain by a Bengali entrepreneur Sake Dean Mahomed. Dean Mahomed introduced the practice to Basil Cochrane's vapour baths while working there in London in the early 1800s, and later, together with his Irish wife, opened "Mahomed's Steam and Vapour Sea Water Medicated Baths" in Brighton, England. His baths were like Turkish baths where clients received an Indian treatment of champi (shampooing), meaning therapeutic massage. He was appointed ‘Shampooing Surgeon’ to both George IV and William IV.

In the 1860s, the meaning of the word shifted from the sense of massage to that of applying soap to the hair. Earlier, ordinary soap had been used for washing hair. However, the dull film soap left on the hair made it uncomfortable, irritating, and unhealthy looking.

During the early stages of shampoo, English hair stylists boiled shaved soap in water and added herbs to give the hair shine and fragrance. Kasey Hebert was the first known maker of shampoo, and the origin is currently attributed to him. Commercially made shampoo was available from the turn of the century. A 1914 ad for Canthrox Shampoo in American Magazine showed young women at camp washing their hair with Canthrox in a lake; magazine ads in 1914 by Rexall featured Harmony Hair Beautifier and Shampoo

Originally, soap and shampoo were very similar products; both containing surfactants, a type of detergent. Modern shampoo as it is known today was first introduced in the 1930s with Drene, the first shampoo with synthetic surfactants.

forever getting in the bath as you know from old usuall lying in bath wondering why i can read the shampoo bottle xx anyway why is it called sham poo lol

I was an idiot yesterday morning ,got in the shower and started to wet my hair from the back to shampoo it and then realised i couldn't see. there was a waterfall that wanted windscreen wipers! yep still got my glasses on !
Shirley

I had my cataracts done a few years ago (was short sighted) so now I have glasses that are bifocal - the top part of the lens are clear. Having worn glasses since I was 12 my face looks dumber without any. But sometimes I forget to put them on - and feel a bit of a fool when I go to take them off when I get in the shower and I am not wearing them. A tad difficult to grab midair and glad it is only me that sees me being stupid.

Persey

lol Supersleuth...... glad she found her glasses....

I am always getting into scrapes.......and my OH gets fed up with me misplacing glasses and having to hunt for them.......one time...

....couldn't find the blighters, so I asked OH if he had seen them, he said no and had I looked everywhere (silly question), and where had I had them last.....

.....last time I remembered was putting them on my Daughter's coffee table, so phoned and got my SiL......he said......you are not wearing them, are you?......and I laughed.......but sure enough they were on my face......now how daft is that........but what i even sillier, that my OH was giving me grief about losing my glasses, at the same time as they were on my face.......we are not stupid people.....honestly.....

My mother in Law went to try on some new glasses in the local shopping centre and she wanted to use her old pair to check a price tag in a another shop but couldn't find them later on.

She only put them on a stand with hundreds of other frames - and found them eventually!!!!

Have you got a funny tale to tell?