Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone else struggle sometimes to do ‘appropriate’ greetings? You know, as the social skills textbook instructs, especially when hugely distracted by something else? Usually I can manage it, but this morning I may have managed to diversify!
I happened to need to pop to the Scout shop this morning to buy some badges for my Beavers. After I got out of my car I realised that there was what looked like a dead hedgehog by the side of the car park. So I had to stop for a few minutes to investigate whether a) it was actually a hedgehog, and b) it was actually dead. So after establishing those facts, I walked into the shop and rather than doing the textbook greeting, I just said “there’s a dead hedgehog in the car park!” Luckily they were fine with it, they even asked what group scarf it was wearing BUT this really isn’t the appropriate way for me to greet people who I haven’t seen for a few months!!
“there’s a dead hedgehog in the car park!”
Sounds like a crude euphemism for some painful condition of the rear end.
Sounds like some sort of dogging or cottaging code, maybe for someone whose had too many pricks.
Silly naive me! I thought that @Hollowman was simply using the phrase as an analogy for a particularly painful dose of the piles!
Hilarious! I hope someone eventually told your colleague his error, after laughing at him for some time?
You've just reminded me of something that happened at a place I worked years ago. There was a new guy who'd started, he was a foreigner (which was a fairly unusual thing in our area at that time), Romanian to be specific.
Anyway, being that this was N.Ireland in the early 2000s, the term "What's the craic?" got thrown around a lot (and I think is still a commonly used social greeting), but this poor guy hadn't picked it up quite right and was going around greeting everyone in broken English with... "How's the crack?" lol.