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The things you do for love.
Posted: Sat 05 Apr, 2008 18.56
by Lorns
I'm going to the ballet with my mum 'cos i love her.
Whoopdewhoop! A wild night for me. You know how sometimes you really wish you hadn't said on a whim, "yeah i'll go with ya". Well this is one of those moments. Within 12hrs of me saying yes she had got the tickets.
Well a night at the ballet it is. She's is so excited i can't tell her i don't want to go now.
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 11.15
by Chie
Pretend to stub your toe on the doorstep on the way out, flail your arms madly as though you're losing your balance and about to topple over, willfully cling on to the door frame for dear life and feign agoraphobia for the rest of the evening. She will recognise the intention of going to the ballet was evidently there, but if she's a loving mother, she will understand your sudden and convenient fear of going outside (coupled with a borderline post-traumatic nervous breakdown) and go on her own. Problem solved.
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 11.24
by Mr Q
Chie wrote:Pretend to stub your toe on the doorstep on the way out, flail your arms madly as though you're losing your balance and about to topple over, willfully cling on to the door frame for dear life and feign agoraphobia for the rest of the evening. She will recognise the intention of going to the ballet was eventidently there, but if she's a loving mother, she will understand your sudden and convenient fear of going outside (coupled with a borderline post-traumatic nervous breakdown) and go on her own. Problem solved.
And best of all, the whole scene would look like something straight out of the opera anyway, and your mother might not even want to go after such a stunning performance.
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 11.39
by Dr Lobster*
i rather enjoyed the first ballet i went to, i was sceptical, and if nothing else music will most certainly be wonderful. which ballet is it?
i think you will be all the better for the experience.
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 11.44
by Stuart*
Won't it be worth the suffering just to spend some time with your dear old Mum? The other week you were prepared to go and sit in Caterbury Cathedral with her.
Perhaps next time she could accompany you to something you like. I'm sure she would have the same reservations about going to a drug-fuelled free-party in a disused barn in the Kent countryside; but she would do it because she loves ya
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 14.13
by Jamez
She'll be dead one day and when you're standing at her grave you'll feel guilty for not going to the ballet with her back in 2008.
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 16.49
by Stuart*
Jamez wrote:She'll be dead one day and when you're standing at her grave you'll feel guilty for not going to the ballet with her back in 2008.
That was my sentiment Jamez, having lost my dear Mum, but I wasn't going to be
quite so blunt
(as is my style, of course).
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 17.37
by Lorns
Dr Lobster* wrote:i rather enjoyed the first ballet i went to, i was sceptical, and if nothing else music will most certainly be wonderful. which ballet is it?
i think you will be all the better for the experience.
The show is Copellia. Actually the synopsis of it is quite promising. It's not for a few weeks yet. Judging by some of the comments, i'm not dreading it nearly as much now. Except for my mum suggesting that we really should dress up for it. I've a feeling her pashmina and pearls will be the order of the day.
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 17.38
by Stuart*
nodnirG kraM wrote:So I just watch the lighting and listen to that!
Most acute aural senses. What can you hear? Can you demonstrate,
'Tumble Tower' style
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 21.00
by Jovis
There should be a question mark there. And Caterbury Cathedral? Go and have a lie down Plymouth.
Re: The things you do for love.
Posted: Sun 06 Apr, 2008 21.27
by Stuart*
Jovis wrote:There should be a question mark there. And Caterbury Cathedral? Go and have a lie down Plymouth.
Canterbury, then. I'm neither religious nor a Kentish Man/Man of Kent, so I don't give a toss! It was a (once only) spelling error made through hasty posting.