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28 March 2008

I left my gamp on the bus. →[More:] My gamp, my brolly, my bumbershoot, my umbrella. Which is weird, because I have never ever ever in my entire life left anything on the bus.

And it's snowing! In Portland! It's practically April, people, it's time to get with some sun.

post by: Specklet at: 11:48 | 27 comments

For some reason I read "gamp" as some kind of nickname for "Grandpa" and was hoping he was all right. :)

posted by JanetLand 28 March | 11:58

What's this now? You left your Gramps on the bus? Of all the people who might do such a thing, I thought you'd be last on the list, Specklet. I'm shocked.

Also jealous of your snow. If we got any last night, it's gone now.

posted by bmarkey 28 March | 11:59

Do not be jealous, it's not sticking. It's just cold and grey and slushy.

posted by Specklet 28 March | 12:03

SPECKLET'S GRAMPS IS LOST IN THE SNOW?? omg!

Poor old guy! Maybe he'll be able to get to a road and catch a bus home.

posted by BoringPostcards 28 March | 12:08

I managed to leave my gym bag on the bus once and my wife left her purse on one a few months ago. The driver saved the item each time but bizarrely, the lost-and-found bin for the Port Authority is 15 miles out of town in their garage at the end of the line. So you have to drive your car (or get a ride) to retrieve something you left on the bus. Fortunately we have a car and no one stole either my smelly gym clothes or my wife's money/cards/etc.

posted by octothorpe 28 March | 12:14

Is this Grampy??

posted by JanetLand 28 March | 12:15

*revels in all ten of the degrees Celsius forecast for tomorrow, each degree special in its own way, whatever they are*

posted by mdonley 28 March | 12:24

That's a pretty harsh prognoze, mdonley.

posted by Specklet 28 March | 12:30

No worries - you're not a total idiot.

Also, gamp is a good word.

posted by Hellbient 28 March | 13:01

I left my Grampy on the bus
I asked my Grampy not to cuss
And all my Grampy said to me was
"Ding, dang, dagnabbit!"

posted by Atom Eyes 28 March | 13:04

Whew, I say, hellbient, whew!

Also: Atom Eyes, that's funny and I like it.

posted by Specklet 28 March | 13:38

This weather IS disgusting, and fam. has the car down in SF.

posted by danf 28 March | 13:42

i use to get bumbershoots stolen all the time. i just stopped carrying them as they are a hassle and almost always more trouble then they are worth. Then they started showing up on their own, left behind from somewhere.
Right now i don't know if i even have one, but i did see some i like too much to lose, and would never get. i'm sure there are a few lost brollies hiding here somewhere. No grampies, though. never had any of those.

Yesterday i got to watch a torrential rain turn to cartoonishly fluffy snow before my eyes. Then i watched the fluffy snow turn into a weather watch warning. Now it is quickly, blindingly, changing from a winter wonderland into waterworld. i think i saw two blinded birds fall out of the sky from the glare.

posted by ethylene 28 March | 13:56

Gamp is a great word, but I must also confess I had no idea what it was.

Frankly, I suspected it was some ratty old, but endearing, scrap of a childhood blanket. Cos, yeah, I could see Specklet ROCKING a gamp.

posted by richat 28 March | 14:05

I just bought one of these sweet puppies for the MrsMoonPie.

posted by mrmoonpie 28 March | 14:23

Yay, it's snowing now! Big wet flakes mixed with rain, yes, but snow nonethless.

And in the time it took to type that, it stopped. And just as quickly started again. Must go walk dog.

posted by bmarkey 28 March | 14:24

Cos, yeah, I could see Specklet ROCKING a gamp.

Hee! I, um, don't have a woobie or anything that I need to have with me before I can fall asleep or nuthin'. Not me.

Gamp.

posted by Specklet 28 March | 15:14

I thought a gamp was a prosthetic leg. So I was all O_o until I got to the coomments.

Is it bad that I think it would have been terribly funny if it were indeed a prosthetic leg?

posted by casarkos 28 March | 15:31

Mdonley, your link made me think of a superpower I wish I had. I wish it was the ability to learn/read/speak any language ever. But instead of me reading the words in their language, they'd be in some mishmash of English and whatever the language was that I could completely understand.

Much like some of the links on the left of that forecast page:
Informācija no METEOROLOĢISKĀ DOPLERA RADARA
ULTRAVIOLETĀS RADIĀCIJAS INDEKSS
TEMPERATŪRU KONVERTATORS

/Derail.

posted by CitrusFreak12 28 March | 15:31

I thought a gamp was a prosthetic leg. So I was all O_o until I got to the coomments.

Is it bad that I think it would have been terribly funny if it were indeed a prosthetic leg?

It's funnier. i like it.

posted by ethylene 28 March | 15:34

It is not bad. That would have been pretty funny.

posted by Specklet 28 March | 15:59

All I could think when you said "Gamp" was that "Gampi" is a fiber used in Japan to make paper, as I learned once in a paper-making workshop. Then you said it was an umbrella, and I pictured this big paper Chinese parasol, yellow, that I used as a prop in my first grade music festival.

My brain works in strange ways. You don't seem to be the sort of people who would be carrying a large paper parasol on the bus.

posted by lleachie 28 March | 17:30

I could definitely see Specklet carrying a large paper parasol on the bus or anywhere, really.

Snow here, too, this morning. But nothing stuck; didn't even get the pavement wet. Per the mister it's worse on the coast.

posted by deborah 28 March | 17:35

I always forget my gamp when I need it the most.

posted by LoriFLA 28 March | 18:56

Specklet's got a fake leg that can be used as an umbrella? Wow, I knew she was pretty funky, but this is above-and-beyond...

posted by Zack_Replica 28 March | 21:47

I bet your gamp is sitting next to my henway.

posted by Doohickie 29 March | 09:46

Oh, about ten pounds.

posted by Specklet 29 March | 14:18

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