what a sad business to see that same farmer return half an hour later, having been persuaded by a "wee man" he met on the side of the road into exchanging his pigs for a worthless cobbler's nail
At my nephew’s first birthday party, trying to make small talk with him. “You read that Patricia Lockwood piece on David Foster Wallace in the LRB? I feel it was over-fatuous, which was an inappropriate tone, even beneath her as such”. No response.
I used to bunk off college to read the Diary of Samuel Pepys in the reference section of the local city library. I know it's not exactly an "I smoked it but never inhaled" story, but I've never told anyone about it.
@NoNotTheMemes @verbatimfoley Tipple Master elaborated in f/b. Matthew Jacobs. Gareth's poems. "You have to get me out of here before *they* kill me again" (in Grace's backseat) now refers to hitherto unknown baddies.
At school we were asked to write down the name of someone we'd lost. I hadn't lost anyone, so l put down Roz Forrester from the Dr Who New Adventures - Adric would've been weird. Later that day we had a mass in our church, and the priest read out the whole list.