A lunch date at eleven thir – tee,
With Ingrid of LiveLaughRV,
Had us both in stitches,
With laughter like riches,
A friendship was destined to be.
I’d never done this before.
It certainly wasn’t a bore.
Ingrid’s met lots of folks,
So I said, “okey doke!
Let’s meet up and tell tales some more.”
We’d never laid eyes on each other.
Our blogs were anonymous cover.
The gravatar pics,
Were enough for a fix,
On each other to clock one another.
We giggled like girls of thirteen,
Taking selfies after a preen.
Our lunches got cold.
The waitress did scold.
That’s a lie. She’s a sweet, young thing.
I hope we can meet up once more,
Our blog trials to further explore.
We had lots to say,
But there’s more to convey,
Of both of our USA tours.
Okay, so I’m new here. Where are you ladies located right now?
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Phoenix. Are you still in Texas?
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Brilliant, I really enjoyed the poem and the comments after.
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Thanks! Ingrid has a big following and she reblogged the post so it saw a lot of activity.
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The ultimate dream.. to meet all the people we chat to every day, the people with whom we share so much more than simply the blogging bug. Well done, girls- I’m majorly chuffed for you 🙂
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Majorly chuffed – excellent phrase! My neighbor once told her little boy she was chuffed with him for doing well at swimming. He looked deflated and said, “Oh. I thought you’d be pleased.”
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Aw, poor little mite. I often say that I’m a chuffed bunny, I get wierd looks on occasions, but I don’t care 🙂
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There are a lot of cool English expressions that just don’t translate. Chuffed, w****r, b*****ks. Brain’s gone dead. Can’t think of any clean ones. That’s just pants!
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WARF 🙂 You’re a corker! B*****KS is one of my all time favourites, along with calling people planks and trollops when I’m driving in France (hey, they don’t understand anyway…)
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I’m going to keep a list of offensive English expressions by the ‘puter as they come to mind. Mind’s gone blank. Oh bum. See? You can’t say ‘Oh butt.’ It just doesn’t have the right ring.
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oops, weird.
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It doesn’t follow The Rule – i before e except after c. It deserves to be misspelled.
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You are lucky to have met Ingrid in person.
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It’s so nice to put body and soul to the words and photos.
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So glad hear you met up with Ingrid! I love her blog and hope to cross paths with them someday. Love meeting up with fellow bloggers.
Great poem to share your meeting:)
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Thanks so much. It was a great date. Not a scary first date as in years past!
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I live too far away to ever meet up with either of you, but I can imagine the time you had together.. I follow Ingrid on her trails across the USA and just from her post she is one person I would love to meet and talk to, her Hubby sounds fun too and I think a visit could be quite the fun party… so I find this post so enjoyable, it tells me that Ingrids personality is in fact what I imagine it to be…
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She is s bundle of fun!
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Lucky, lucky girls sounds like great fun.
Ruth from At Home on the Road
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It was fun and also interesting to ‘dish’ with a fellow blogger.
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Now wait a minute…why am i not invited to this party?
Okey my turn will be soon somewhere, right? ha ha Glad you too finally met.
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We will have another party in your honor! When are you flying out to Phoenix? Your name did come up. Were your ears burning on Wednesday? It was all good!! We are hoping to come to Florida (probably fly) this winter. I will watch your progress and perhaps we could meet up too! 🙂
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Following both of your blogs keeps me in stitches, I can imagine the laughter when you two got together.
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Oh yes! We did some shopping as well. How can you not when you meet in a mall? Also I think Ingrid was a little jealous when I told her I’d just spent $13 and saved $90!
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Great poem! I love meeting bloggy friends!
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So how many have you met? It was my first as you’ve probably gathered but I’m hoping for more!
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I think I’ve met 6. One came through town just a month or so ago. His mission was to travel around the U.S. by bus meeting his online friends. Pretty amazing.
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I’ve heard of people following sports or racing teams around. Well that’s different. I’ll bet he’s having an interesting time.
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I feel so fortunate to have had the opportunity to meet Ingrid. 🙂
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Thank you LuAnn…..how very nice of you 🙂
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I feel I have a lifelong friend and that makes me very happy. 🙂
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Thank you….so nice of you to say and I definitely feel the same way 🙂 May our paths cross sometime in 2014!
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And so say all of us! Well me anyway.
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Reblogged this on Live Laugh RV and commented:
Her posts always make me smile. No lack of humorous episodes for this adventurous traveler. It was a pleasure meeting…..
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Yes, fun indeed and we WILL need to do it again. Love the title…..great post….it was a pleasure!
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Thanks Ingrid! The title went through several edits. If you didn’t see the original one, I’ll need to whisper it in your ear. Hahaha.
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Oh, please do….I can imagine.
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Done it. Our secret.
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How fun–and brave! 🙂
I’ve only been blogging for a short time, and have never met any of my fellow followers/commenters/blog buddies in person. Sounds like it was a GREAT afternoon!
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It was! We told secrets and went shopping too!
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