Sad Moments of the Gifts

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TeaDidikai

At which point the owner who was there for a stock check looked up and asked her if she had stolen anything. The woman was shocked, and began to rip into the owner.

The owner pointed out that the only reason the dragon leaves the shop is to punish people who shop lifted. I didn't see her after that day.

xd xd I /love/ that!  

[LadyEladrin]

TeaDidikai

EladrinStarmist

I had a lady come into work last Saturday and tell me she must be under some sort of hex because she hadn't won at bingo recently and she was really used to winning hundreds of dollars a week at it...

That's a good one. Do you think she was serious?

I think she was. She might be coming to work for us someday in the future as a palm reader. I didnt' get anything 'negative' that was stuck to her, like a curse or hex. She just wasn't lucky in that way anymore.  

[Light Chakra]

I don't exactly win... but I do have an interesting fellow to speak about.
A friend of mine... well not anymore, but that's not the point... would frequently tell me about how he couldn't die, and whenever he bled he would go to sleep and the blood would magically dissapear! And the wound with it... imagine that!
The most interesting thing was that one night he spent the night at my house and stepped on a piece of glass, when he woke up the next morning and swore under his breath about the pain from cut that was 'still there'.
Not exactly funny, but what can you do?  

[LadyEladrin]

That's just pathetic. sweatdrop I'm sorry, but that is JUST sad. But, that's why this thread is called 'sad moments of the gift', right? ^__^  

[Lila Malvae]

There was this lady who used to frequent our local shop who insisted that she was a dragon in her "astral form" and that she knew what dragons were like and that she was very much like them.
We said some pretty cruel things about her that we probably shouldn't have, but we just couldn't tell her off to her face. She didn't really know much about anything, and we used to call her a lapdog: big bark, little bite. She was like this little yapping dog that was saying,"Look at me, I'm big and tough! I'm better than you because I am."
It was really quite sad. I wish that if people in the future think that they are dragons, they should keep it to themselves, for sanity's sake.
Which reminds me of a girl I knew who proclaimed that all the bad spirits she saw, the "demons" were her friends and were really quite nice to her. Imagine tea and crumpets with Asmodeus, or playing dolls with Mephistopheles.  

[TeaDidikai]

Light Chakra

I don't exactly win... but I do have an interesting fellow to speak about.
A friend of mine... well not anymore, but that's not the point... would frequently tell me about how he couldn't die, and whenever he bled he would go to sleep and the blood would magically dissapear! And the wound with it... imagine that!
The most interesting thing was that one night he spent the night at my house and stepped on a piece of glass, when he woke up the next morning and swore under his breath about the pain from cut that was 'still there'.
Not exactly funny, but what can you do?

I don't know. I find that highly amusing.  

[queertastrophy]

MST3Kakalina

some of the questions i get for Tarot readings...oy gevalt. that pretty much sums it up.

and my boyfriend has the green/brown thing going on too. mostly they're green, but in dark lighting they look kinda brown, on account of the green is a little dark. his mom used to call him "my little moss-eye." xp

i've also heard of eye colour changing due to chemical imbalances and the like, like not eating right or being sick and such.

Damn, same with my boyfriend. whee

@ Tea: Part four gave me quite the giggle. I read in one of your other posts that you lived in WA--I'll be heading back out there again for spring break, and the shop you've mentioned sounds interesting. Whereabouts is it, dare I ask?  

[queertastrophy]

(Actually on-topic)

A good friend of mine dated a guy last year around Samhain. She warned me that he was very quirky and fluffy, but he was a good guy and she felt a connection with him when he wasn't talking about witchcraft and paganism. So, she came down to visit one night and brought him with to see how I got along with him.

He seriously looked like a seventeen-year-old (he was twenty-five), and looked like someone who had played Vampire: The Masquerade too often--tall, skinny, with dyed black, dissheveled hair. I decided to give him the benefit of the doubt and not judge by looks, and sat down to talk with him.

Within five minutes, he started going on and on about how, "In your [he was directing this to me] future, I see a rose and a dragon. Which one will you choose, my dear?" I was horribly confused--I was just starting to become interested in paganism at that point in my life, and he was kind of putting me off. He kept that up for quite some time, even when we got into the car to go for a drive. He just wouldn't stop.

Needless to say, Shelli was mortified, being quite serious about her divination practices (She's an Asatruar and dabbles in div. and herbs as well). She gave him a look, told him to kindly be quiet, and he (thankfully) dropped it for the rest of the night.

They broke up not much longer afterwards. She told me that within the next week, he kind of snapped and she found him going through her things--her private book of spells, her altar, and looking into her scrying mirror (she's more into the whole "personal space" thing than I am--I can't imagine the verbal a**-kicking he got after that whee ).  

[TeaDidikai]

BlueRoseTorn

Damn, same with my boyfriend. whee

@ Tea: Part four gave me quite the giggle. I read in one of your other posts that you lived in WA--I'll be heading back out there again for spring break, and the shop you've mentioned sounds interesting. Whereabouts is it, dare I ask?

Olympia.  

[Triste-chan]

I distinctly remember being a young lass (fourth or fifth grade) attending some summer program and having some kid walk around with a huge cloth bundle filled with some sot of herb around his neck. And this wasn't a small thing, either. This sucker was ******** gigantic. About the size of a fist. When I asked him about it, he said that it was full of herbs for 'love.' Keep in mind that this kid is in the sixth grade at best.

When I saw his mom, she was covered in gaudy jewelry. I don't remember it clearly now, but I do remember there being a lot of stones and silver, and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there were huge pentacles involved.

That was my first experience with paganism as far as I can remember.  

[Henry Dorsett Case]

Time for me to practice Thread Necromancy.

One of the worst moments I ever had was when I was dating a very Fluffbunny "Wiccan" in '99. After being told that I had demons chasing me, that I would contaminate any circle she tried to cast, and that I and another Christian (yeah, I was Christian at the time) friend had "Esper Powers", we went to Barnes and Noble. Of course, she heads straight for the New Age section. Plucks down a Silver Ravenwolf book. Hands it to me. And says:

Amy the Psycho Ex

See, authors like her are what's wrong with Wicca. Normally, Llewellyn Press is so responsible!

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Then again, this same Love and Light Fluffball later threatened to kill my then-fiancee (We'll call her May). Why? Because May talked to her ex-boyfriend, who was then Amy's boyfriend, and admitted, when directly asked, that she still had strong feelings for him that she would not act on.  

[Aesi]

Luna Eclipse

I had this one friend who claimed ancestory from the Tuatha Da Danaan (sp?) Her "proof" of this was the fact that her family was from Ireland, as are said race of faery beings. Yup. She also claimed that her eyes changed colors depending on her mood. Oh yeah, and did I mention the fact that she is the avatar of the god Lugh? Yes, whenever she says something extremely rude or obscene and embarrases you to the point where you want to just judo chop her in the throat, she claims that it wasn't actually her saying all those things, it was Lugh talking via her. Needless to say, we are no longer friends xp I also know this other dude who is the reincarnation of Beowulf. The ouija board told him so, so it must be true. I don't know about you folks, but I know that the ouija board is a name you can trust. I once spoke to Bruce Lee through the famed talking board, and he informed me he was murdered by talking lesbian monkies. 3nodding And I know this other guy who is a self-proclaimed Egyptian priest, and is searching the globe for 50 different types of magick that escaped Egypt in Ancient times or some such gobbledegook. So far, his search hasn't yet led him out of New Jersey. Oh, I could go on forever about the moronic people I've encountered in my 10+ years as a practicing pagan, but I will simply leave you off with this little bit of advice I read on a bumper sticker: Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

blaugh

These sound like a former friend of mine. He believed he was an incarnation of an Egyptian chaos god, the son of a demon (well, I agree somewhat. His father really was a b*****d), nephew of Lucifer, heir to Hell, accompanied by a shadow demon by the name of "Quick" and a demon wolf spirit by the name of "Nightwalker". He also thought of himself as a cat choosing to be human and that his eyes would turn red when he went into a blackout rage.

Not .. sane. But he was actually a good friend until he started showing traits of his father's. He turned into a tyrant and retreated into video games (like his father had retreated into pornography) because he couldn't handle being a father to his three-year-old son and couldn't give people a little room for error. Too many fantasies to deal with life.

As well, his fiancee thinks her family has werewolves in it because she knows how to squat on her toes. She believes her genuinely evil ex-husband is an elf because he's tall, fair-skinned, and Norse.

Unrelated to supernatural or magical things, both these people believe that her ex is an assassin for the Russian Mafia, that black cars follow them, and there are people keeping an eye on me in case I'm a threat to these former friends, and that the evil father mentioned earlier was protected by a Mafia family in Detroit whose patriarch simply goes by "C".  

[TeaDidikai]

I have been known to rant about people confusing medicine (wholistic and otherwise) with magic.

So when I went to a local shop to pick up some rose hips, clover and raspberry leaves in hopes of easing my work jangled nerves, I wasn't looking for instruction outside of what I had already paid my Herbalist for.

The woman at the herb counter suggested lavender. I'm allergic to lavender. It gives me headaches.

I said no thank you- these will do just fine. Lavender gives me headaches.

The next words out of her mouth I could not believe. "Have you tried using lavender to get rid of the headaches? Lavender is a wonderful plant and sacred to the goddess of healing!"

stressed  

[Henry Dorsett Case]

TeaDidikai

The next words out of her mouth I could not believe. "Have you tried using lavender to get rid of the headaches? Lavender is a wonderful plant and sacred to the goddess of healing!"

Oh dear sweet...

Then again, a friend of mine told me "You can just take some Tylenol to clear that up" after I told him acetaminophen gives me headaches...  

[ProfessorZed]

TeaDidikai

I'm allergic to lavender. It gives me headaches.

Offtopic: Tea, you're the first person (other than myself) I've ever met who gets headaches from Lavender. Somebody had a craft table or somesuch in the mall one time, and my hubby actually had to take me by the hand and lead me outside -- I could smell it, and feel the first twinges, from about five or six shopwidths away.