Kitty's Corner

Do you know the type of persons who say exactly what pops into their heads, without filtering it first??

A couple of my colleagues told me stories about that kind of persons, and I really feel like sharing them with you.

The first story is about Karen, she's 50-something years old, and she's thin. Not, skinny-thin, but there is no extra fat on her. She told me that 15 years ago, when she weighed 15 kilos less than now (), she went to the swimming bath with her sister and her brother-in-law. When my colleague and her sister came out of the changing room, her bro-in-law was already in the water. He gazed up at the two women in their bathing suits, and bursted out: "My god Karen, you've got huge thighs!!!"


The other story is about a woman who has lost a lot of weight recently. She is her early 60s. She met another colleague in the elevator, and the colleague started to praise her for the weight loss: "Oh dear, you've lost so much weight, it's really amazing! But now your wrinkles really show! Oh man, you've got a lot of wrinkles! Also on the neck! Whoa!!!"


Can you believe it???

The opening of a new IKEA store is usually a small-scale event with the odd bargain hunter or two looking for a deal, but the new store in Odense on Funen is drafting in the police, Home Guard and first aid workers on its grand opening Wednesday.

Odense has long held the record for the smallest IKEA store in the world, but that has changed into being the largest venue for the Swedish furniture retailer in Denmark.

The project leader for the opening expects 100,000 visitors in the first four days.

Both the Home Guard and Funen Police will be on site for the first four days. The Home Guard will help control traffic and police will be there to help and advise motorists with parking and stopping.

I need to go to IKEA too to get some things for my upcoming refreshing of my home. But I will sure as hell not go to Funen to get it. I just take my local store, where I know they've got what I want.

Scenario number one:

My dad goes to the hospital for a semi-annual health check. He waits in the waiting room like he is supposed to, and after half an hour the nurse calls his name. He gets up, approaches her, and sticks his hand out to say hello. The nurse takes one big step away and says: "We don't shake hands with the patients. Flu risk, you know..."
After additional 10 minutes, the doctor comes in, shakes hands with my dad, and says: "Hello, I'm your doctor!", and my dad replies: "Oh, but I thought you guys didn't shake hands with the patients?"
The doc rolls his eyes, lowers his voice, and says to my dad: "Nurses...!"


Scenario number two:

I'm heading for the ladies room at work. I see another woman heading for the restrooms too, but since we have more than one, I just continue walking. Then I see her open her bag and pick up a paper towel. She wraps it around the door handle, and opens the door to the ladies room without touching the handle itself.
I stop and stare. She is going to the toilet, and she doesn't want to touch the door handle on her way in. I would perhaps have understood it better if it had been on her way out - I mean, after all you never know if other people wash their hands after having been out there...



So what I experience here is that some people get hysterical about this influenza A. And sure, it's not nice to be ill. I'd rather not be either, but common sense will help a lot.

Our national board of health says that the population here in general has no need to be worried. Most people who become infected with Influenza H1N1 will only experience mild symptoms that will be over in a few days. So why is it that some people suffer from hysteria? It's a flu, not the plague!

And it's easy to minimize the risk of catching the flu:

• wash your hands frequently with soap and water
  
  
• Cough or sneeze in your sleeve instead of in your hand
  
  
• Stay at home if you are ill!
  

Now go and have yourself a good weekend!

Last night we lost an hour when we set our clocks one hour forward due to the phenomenon Daylight saving time.

I never liked setting clocks neither back nor forward. It takes my inner clock some time to adjust, and especially here in March where we loose an hour.

Anyway - I've been browsing around to find the effects of this, and it seems that the answer you get depends on where you look. Some say we save energy, some say we don't.

So I have set my clock like I'm supposed to. But I'm not liking it.

(Or: "Hvem vil være Millionær?")

Do you ever watch that show on Television? I've seen it a couple of times, but I am not a regular watcher. - I can't be since I don't watch TV much at all. But sometimes I think it's funny to try and guess with the ones at the show.

Anyway...

I was invited to come watch the show as part of the audience, and since I was curious to see how it is recorded, I said yes. The show usually lasts for 45 minutes, and I was told to be there for about 3 hours, so I knew that there would be a lot of waiting.

When I got there I was told that there were about 200 persons invited, and we would be served a light meal, not dinner, but something to eat. :bah: All there was was candy and cookies, and even though I like both, it's not exactly dinner. Anyway, after half an hour of cookie- and candy-eating, everybody suddenly got up and stood in line. I hadn't heard anybody say anything about getting in line, but since everybody else got up, I did too. Look:

After two minutes, a guy (who worked there) said that there was no reason to stand there yet, since they weren't ready in the studio. Everybody reacted as if they didn't hear him, but I sat down again, thinking to myself that they probably didn't invite more people than they had seats.

After about 15-20 minutes of more waiting, we finally were allowed into the studio. I was one of the last ones, and I was seated right next to a seat. Yes, you read it right, next to a seat. Apparently they calculated with some wastage rate, so there weren't enough seats after all.

Here's the view from where I sat:


The studio was much smaller than I had expected; it looks so big on TV. Now I know it's their wide angles lenses that do the trick!

A guy came on and started warming up the audience. Here's a glance of him:


He was hilarious, told a lot of cool jokes, imitated the host and previous competitors and really created a great atmosphere!

Then the host came, and the show started. It was cool, the two competitors were teacher and student respectively, so they had a lot of background knowledge. They stopped at the prize just below the first prize, and went home with half a million Danish Kroner. (66,300 Eur).

All in all it was a good evening, but man! Was I hungry after some real food!


ps. Sorry for the poor quality of the photos, it wasn't really allowed to take pictures there.