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Veronica
Schanoes
Registered User
(4/9/05 11:15 am)
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Re: the commuting fairy's cousin...
Oh, I don't think the commuting fairy is purely malevolent, just changeable. After all, when you're running late and your train unexpectedly becomes an express, allowing you to just make a connection with another train, which whizzes through the stations and deposits you at your Very Important Appointment ten minutes early instead of thirty minutes late, who deserves the credit but the ever-capricious commuting fairy?
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Aer
Unregistered User
(4/10/05 3:44 pm)
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Parking Fairy
"Nice if "the customer is always right" could be balanced by, "But if the customer isn't polite, s/he could wind up beset with a 6-month case of laryngitis and an irresistible desire for pickled herring."" <--- That would be very nice.
I also agree with anyone who stated that anyone who parks in a handicapped parking spot without a handicap will have their car moved to the farthest corner of the lot (also applicable to people who park in two spots) being a person who wears a bright orange vest (which seems to have the magical effect of instantly making me completely invisible), and indicates to people where they are supposed to park. It is amazing how everyone parks in the handicapped spots, it is incredibly annoying, and some people just refuse to move, and start yelling at me... that's when the laryngitis and an irresistible desire for pickled herring would come in handy.
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avalondeb
Registered User
(4/10/05 5:47 pm)
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Re: Parking Fairy
I'm surprised no one mentioned The Scale Fairy. The one who playfully adds 5 lbs pounds to the scales of the petite, pretty, size 0 women who have the nerve to whine about "watching her carbs" and how "she NEEDS to get to the gym" to work off her non-existant potbelly.
The Scale Fairy should add 10 lbs to the scale of these women when they have the gall to complain to people like ME, who are tryly 20 lbs overweight (really, from the doctor, not imagined) and are trying so hard to diet....
Edited by: avalondeb at: 4/10/05 5:54 pm
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snigglefaerie
Unregistered User
(4/10/05 6:15 pm)
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Cigarette-hating Fairy
There should be a special faerie who goes in to convenience stores at night and steals the cigarettes so that those who don't smoke can be spared the smokers' second hand smoke
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Helen
J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(4/10/05 6:16 pm)
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Re: Cigarette-hating Fairy
Yes ... that truly *would* be a bad fairy, what with the curtailing
of individual choice ...
A Guilty Smoker,
Helen
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snigglefaerie
Unregistered User
(4/10/05 6:43 pm)
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Re: Cigarette-hating Fairy
Whoops! Hope I didn't offend...
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Erica
Carlson
Registered User
(4/11/05 7:24 pm)
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Re: Smoking Fairy
Not to mention the havoc that such a fairy would wreak on the friends
and significant others of smokers who would find themselves sans
nicotine! Speaking as a person who is rather attached to a smoker,
I'd rather take a bit of second-hand smoke, myself
Off Topic--anyone read The Bellwether by Connie Willis?
Come to think of it, it might not be all that off-topic. The book
has a sort of good-fairy-in-disguise theme in it, and also makes
some interesting points about the way people sometimes treat those
who smoke.
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Helen
J Pilinovsky
Registered User
(4/11/05 7:40 pm)
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Re: Smoking Fairy
Oh, I absolutely love The Bellwhether! And did, back when
I was a rather self-righteous non-smoker, as well ...(Meaning absolutely
no offense to you, snigglefaerie, and only a laugh at my younger
self's expense: given the topic of the thread, I found your suggestion
both hilarious and appropriate; after all, we know that we're being
silly, too, but between the addictive properties and the stress
relief ...) Willis does a beautiful job of blending Browning's "Pippa
Passes" with "Diamonds and Toads": I think of The
Bellwhether as the perfect example of a non-overt fairy tale
retelling. In fact, now that the WisCon issue's been put to bed,
I think that I'll celebrate by going and re-reading it right now
... G'bless the cessation of the reign of the Procrastination Fairy,
and her ceding of the throne to the Relaxation Fairy - equally dangerous,
but a bit more good-natured!
Edited by: Helen J Pilinovsky at: 4/11/05 7:42 pm
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Elizabeth
Genco
Registered User
(4/11/05 7:49 pm)
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Re: Smoking Fairy
The commuting fairy was out again in full force over the weekend. Apparently, she has something against the Brooklyn Bridge when it comes to subway traffic!
Then, there's the needle arts fairy, who insideously adds a stitch there or drops a stitch there, then glamours the work until I'm a good ten rows past...
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What's that fiddle player in the subway thinking
about?
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