2006-09-01 11:20:04 · 24 answers · asked by Thia 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Yes, my great aunt Louise. As a child, I remember family gatherings was a great place to hear stories of my aunt's escapades and creative ideas. My grandfather, her brother, a very soft-spoken and humble man, would get all wound up and red-faced recounting the memories of growing up with her.
I laughed then and I laugh still at the effect she had on these wonderful people who had no clue what a 'gift' she was in their lives. She was a real pistol! I miss her.
2006-09-07 12:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by Carolanne 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Eccentric - means off centre - diffferent from other people. Not crazy as some of the other people answering the question appear to think. The English are proud of our eccentrics and eccentricities. I've always been eccentric - and get more so as I get older. That's why I answer questions on just about any subject and have got to level 5 and still going. I'm also doing other stuff. I made some changes to my website last night. take a look! Leave a message in the guest book! You can also click the logo and go to my other site look around and download some free MP3s - they are unreleased too! I have a screenshot of my virtual art gallery on my website - if you're in to turning pictures in to jigsaw puzzles, adding music and then when the puzzle is finished displaying it in your very own 3D art gallery. You can even do it with your photos if you have a digital camera. COOL! I also blog. I've been blogging on soulcast just lately. I chat to people on IRC and MSN IM. I sent an MP3 player to a kid in China - and talked to a frightened kid in Lebanon; while the bombing was on. I also do a little political lobbying. I have a advertisement for the United Nations on my website - they sent me a nice email. I had a nice email from the Lord Chancellor's department - but the guy has left - had an email saying he no longer works there. I'll have to try something else. Then there are the forums, where we discuss issues like politics, big companies putting spyware on our PC's and how to get rid of it. Of course, I do "normal" stuff. I plugged my DVB stick in to my laptop one night and watched two movies in bed. Mickey Blue Eyes and Saturday Night Fever. Is watching saturday Night Fever for the 3rd time normal? I was eating sweets (candy) in bed at the same time too. Look at my website and you decide if I'm eccentric or just plain crazy......
2006-09-02 00:17:14 · answer #2 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I use to work for a law firm in the CBD in Melbourne which was a family owned law firm. I'd never met an eccentric before I worked here and boy, I lasted 3 weeks. I can't remeber the guys name but he also had a problem with mumbling his every word which made it very near impossible for me to take his notes first thing every morning. I remember him sending one of the girls from the office back to his house to pick up a dead fly of his bedroom window sill. I use to have to bring him drinks during the day and I had to hold the cup from near the very bottom or he would get all hissy pissy and tell me about all the germs on my hands that Id put onto the cup which he was suppose to now drink from (coo coo coo coo) He was soooooo eccentric that he had NO and I mean NO patience, when he called you ran to him. I remember him buzzing me at my desk and I couldnt find a blue pen so I just grabbed a green on with my notepad and when he saw me taking notes with a green pen, he hit the roof and preceeded to tell me that I was to only use blue or black ink for writing and that red was only for use in errors. I waited til him and his brother went to Hong Kong for a legal seminar and I told his sister (who was the other receptionist) to stick the job, I was outta there. Turns out that the employment agency that sent me there refused to send another girl over to them because I was number 5 million or some damn high number, we all left.
2006-09-09 03:45:45 · answer #3 · answered by Linda 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When we first got married we had an elderly couple on our street, she lived downstairs and he lived upstairs, they ate meals together which she cooked, never spoke to each other, he stood by the window upstairs most of the day with a pair of binoculars watching anything and everything that moved, on a Sunday they used to go to church, come back have a huge row, they both stormed out of the house going in opposite directions then spent about an hour peeping round the corner of either end of the street to see if the other was doing the same, eventually both going back to the house and slamming doors for about an hour, it happened every week and you could set your clock by it, very strange and weird, the odd thing was, when he died suddenly, she followed him exactly a week later herself, guess they were meant to be together even in death.
2006-09-01 14:43:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
My neighbours mum won over a million pound on the lottery.
Her mum buys her a brand new car every couple of years and spends loads on her house.
A ball from her garden came into my garden, my dog bit it and popped it.
Boy did she complain about that, it cost 99pence.
I ain't spoken to her since.
I don't know if thats eccentric but it sure is pathetic.
2006-09-01 12:45:44 · answer #5 · answered by timone 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
if it were'nt for eccentric people, technology would still be in the dark ages. Granted, most eccentrics don't particularly contribute to science, but a few of them do. Enjoy the show - most of them are harmless, and can be funny.
2006-09-04 16:32:33 · answer #6 · answered by watcher 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We had lunatic neighbors directly across the street for over thirty years. It was an elderly couple and their adult son who never married and never left home. He was especially strange.
As far as anyone could remember, the only job he'd ever held was as temporary holiday help at Bamberger's, before it became Macy's.
He always wore a great big set of head phones, even while driving. He never drove faster than 20mph in street traffic, or 40mph on the highway. He wore "logo" t-shirts (eg: bright yellow with a Crazy Eddie logo on the chest) with shorts, brown socks and loafers. He BBQ's all year long - even in the dead of winter.
He was a big gardner, and so the yard, small as it was, was always littered with various new potted plants and trees and things. Their grass would grow so high it could tickle your @ss, and when he did finally get around to mowing it, he would leave an unmowed strip on either side of the property - driving the two next-door neighbors absolutely wild. He developed an odd habit of stealing the bags of leaves from in front of our house before the town would pick them up, and he'd pile them in the front corner of his yard.
They always had at least 4 or 5 crummy old cars and a great big camper. The driveway was designed to fit two cars comfortably. The camper never moved in 30 years and eventually served as a storage space because, as their bumper stickers read, they "brake for yard sales." They were total pack rats, buying all sorts of crap from any yard sales they passed, and then they'd have a yard sale of their own every so often.
Perhaps the weirdest thing about him was that he carried a video camera with him everywhere he went. He seemed to film anything and everything, yet no one could say for sure if there was ever any film in the camera. Leaves blowing down the street, his father standing in the doorway of the house waving, random people passing by - you name it, he filmed it - even children leaving school. We was ordered to stay away from the local schools on more than one occasion.
His parents have since been put into a nursing home and the house was sold, but he's still around because Mom reported that he recently showed up at church for choir practice wearing a speedo, and probably those damned loafers.
2006-09-01 12:38:34 · answer #7 · answered by nyboxers73 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Oh yes! My father's aunt used to get up at 5am. go to the Post Office parking lot and hula hoop 500 times, then jump rope 600 times right there with everyone watching! She also attended funerals of people whom she didn't know. She bathed in lysol and moisturized with olive oil. She didn't seem crazy, but she was very colorful...
2006-09-08 21:38:07 · answer #8 · answered by a_phantoms_rose 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As I write, my next door neighbour, a usually quiet and polite man in his seventies, is dancing with a broomstick in his greenhouse, dressed in nothing but a cummerbund and singing at the top of his voice.
He does it every Saturday.
2006-09-02 07:42:07 · answer #9 · answered by Never say Never 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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