OddThinking

A blog for odd things and odd thoughts.

On Hovercraft

I owned a toy hovercraft as a boy.

Later, as a young teen, I made my own working toy hovercraft.

Is it any surprise that I had a desire to travel on a real-life hovercraft?

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Categories: Based On A True Story,Story-Telling
Tags: anecdote, hovercraft, travel

Magic Trick: Turning Numbers Into Wine

Meantime, I started negotiating a deal. Grace would persuade Ben to give up the secret to the binary trick…

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Airport Meetings

At uni, my friend, Karen, ran up to me. “Come with us to the airport! Stephanie is coming back from a long trip to the UK, and we are all going to greet here!”

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Bored?

Once up a time, I was trying to concentrate on the essay I was writing, but I had been working on it for a while, and I was having trouble remaining focussed.

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Top Gun of the Airfix Force

At what age did boys make model airplanes? At that tender age, I had never been so mortified – it absolutely horrified me what this young sales assistant thought.

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Coming Out Wrong

Here’s another story of coming out wrong… wait, wait… let me re-word that.

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Cold Reading

I once found myself performing a cold-reading. It was an interesting experience, but I was left feeling uncomfortable.

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Traffic Lights and Swedish Buses: An Analysis

When I moved to Sweden, I was a little inexperienced with manual gearboxes. So my first day driving to work alone was a challenge.

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Counting Windows

Once I dreamt that someone told me a very funny riddle. […] “Cool,” I thought, “Independent verification! It really is funny!”

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Ice-Cream Flavours and Personal Bests

As I sat on my living room floor, a strange woman with bedraggled hair came up to the glass back door. She simply opened it without knocking and started striding in.

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