a note for first-timers

If it's your first time here and you're new to blogs, the first post you'll see is the most recent so that's where you should be ending, rather than starting. Otherwise, carry on...

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interesting conversation

H: "How big is it?"
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H: "Oh, it's really big!"
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BO: "You can have a feel of it if you like."
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H: "It's hard!"

Doesn't that look dodgy?! Yes, it sounded dodgy at the time too - even though the ellipsis actually had further conversation in them.

We were talking about the present I'd bought for H's son for Christmas that was sat on the passenger seat of her car after I'd borrowed her keys this morning to put it there lest I forget and drive off home with it - you've got to do these things, I find, when they're fresh in your mind or you'll never do them!

It kinda spoils it when you discover the context, doesn't it? She'd asked if she could open it, at which point I informed her that she could try to determine the nature of the wrapped object by using her tactile sense, but not by opening it. I have to be careful with my words here because I've already put you in that frame of mind, you filthy people!