Minding My Beeswax
- Thread starter Meanderer
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When we go shopping, I find myself upset by some the behavior of some children, who are with their parent or grandparent. But I would never say anything negative to them. Sometimes, like the children, I am tired and don't want to be there either.
Our shopping,today brought a different "offender". We came across an older gentleman, who was a "Whistler". He was nicely dressed and had the look of "privilege", but was constantly whistling......LOUDLY! He was alone, and didn't seem to interact with anyone. He calmly did his shopping....and whistled. It was not a tune, that was recognizable. It was like a whistling organ playing....LOUDLY. I thought that it was inappropriate behavior, bordering on rudeness. It was like we weren't there. .....he could be heard 2 isles away.
He was a white haired senior, tall and healthy looking. But then I thought, he may have other problems....dementia, maybe. I did not run into him at the checkout, but I have this picture of him whistling his way out the door.
Has anyone else ever run into "this guy"?
Our shopping,today brought a different "offender". We came across an older gentleman, who was a "Whistler". He was nicely dressed and had the look of "privilege", but was constantly whistling......LOUDLY! He was alone, and didn't seem to interact with anyone. He calmly did his shopping....and whistled. It was not a tune, that was recognizable. It was like a whistling organ playing....LOUDLY. I thought that it was inappropriate behavior, bordering on rudeness. It was like we weren't there. .....he could be heard 2 isles away.
He was a white haired senior, tall and healthy looking. But then I thought, he may have other problems....dementia, maybe. I did not run into him at the checkout, but I have this picture of him whistling his way out the door.
Has anyone else ever run into "this guy"?
Shalimar
SF VIP
- Location
- Vancouver Island Canada
I ran into someone similar in a mall recently, he was humming at the top of his lungs, just ambling along. Older, well dressed, carrying shopping bags from an expensive store. No smell of alcohol, or stumble in his step from meds or stroke etc. I think he
was cognitively impaired. He was in another world, you could see it in his eyes.
Falcon
DV8
- Location
- So. California
Sounds like a happy man, to me.
Happy people whistle to themselves at times, I know. He didn't appear to be happy. He never quit whistling, and was very loud. I saw him in the store, once before only in passing and it was the same.
Even The Whistler has to go shopping sometimes. Did it sound like this?nthego:
"The program featured one of radio’s classic openings: a haunting 13-note theme created by Wilbur Hatch (who also composed the show’s eerie mood music). Hatch estimated that only one person in twenty could whistle this exact melody, and for the show’s thirteen-year duration one person pretty much did—a young woman named Dorothy Roberts. In fact, during the war years, Roberts had to get permission from Lockheed (where she worked) to leave her factory job in order to make it to the program and whistle every week".
I guess you could say that Dorothy Roberts "whistled while she worked"!
An army of 60,000 bees built this giant honeycomb teapot
"Designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertíny of Studio Libertiny collaborated with an army of bees to complete Thousand Years, his latest experimental beeswax sculpture. Commissioned by the French fine silver manufacturer Christofle, the large teapot-shaped vessel was created with the help of Dutch beekeeper Johan Beckers and his group of 60,000 bees. The unique work of art is a continuation of Libertíny’s fascination with harnessing the epic power of nature".
"Designer Tomáš Gabzdil Libertíny of Studio Libertiny collaborated with an army of bees to complete Thousand Years, his latest experimental beeswax sculpture. Commissioned by the French fine silver manufacturer Christofle, the large teapot-shaped vessel was created with the help of Dutch beekeeper Johan Beckers and his group of 60,000 bees. The unique work of art is a continuation of Libertíny’s fascination with harnessing the epic power of nature".
