How bout this one for a Purim story....
another in a long line of weird things that have happened during that
holiday. (I've got some tales). This Swedish girl was wanting to help
her friend get off work early, so she told a 'little white lie' that it
was her birthday and could her friend leave work early and help her
celebrate. Before she knew it, all these people were wishing her happy
birthday... a cake appeared, everyone
was buying her drinks, it was a big party (and it wasn't her birthday).
She said that she got so drunk she actually thought it was her
birthday. She told her friend, 'This is the best birthday I've ever
had', and she meant it. It wasn't her birthday, but it was Purim, when
the Jews are commanded to get so drunk they don't know the difference
between good and evil. Afterward she said that she felt guilty for
making it up and having it get so large and crazy. But when I told her
about Purim, and the fact that her story is a perfect Purim metaphor,
she was very pleased. Felt much better about her deception. Cosmic
forces, people....
And another Swedish vignette... this one
with the two twenty year old girls who are staying in the room next to
mine at the barracks, er guest house. (it looks like a barracks). Two
blonde Swedes, but they have dyed their hair and eyebrows black. I
said, 'So in other words, everyone wants to be blonde and they bleach
their hair, but you two who are truly blonde, you dye your hair in the
opposite direction. That's funny'. The one I was talking to pointed to
the other one and said, 'No that's funny'. I turned to her and said,
'You're funny?' She said, yes I'm funny. Her name was Fannie
(pronounced 'fonny'). THAT was funny.
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