Ah yes Toxoplasmosis! I’m sure I read once that it makes people (and mice, obviously) oblivious to danger!
I sometimes wonder whether I may have picked it up because I am the sort of person that will speak to anyone!
In fact I can only recall of one occasion when I didn’t feel that way. Going in to the sauna in my local gym one day, there was a man already in there and my instincts were telling me not to speak to him (maybe I was just grumpy that day?) anyway I laid down on the top bench as I normally do (as you get a more equal distribution of heat that way) and I could hear this weird rustling noise. You can imagine my shock when, after 15 minutes I had to get up to have a sip of my water, he was erm, I’ll leave that to your imagination! (I am not a prude and if he was just sitting there naked I wouldn’t have minded at all.)
(So maybe I don’t have Toxoplasmosis after all, as my instincts kicked in and told me to be wary in that situation!)
Here’s a funny story - a friend of mine and I went up the mountains round here one day and because we left it a bit late it started to get dark and cold and so we decided to cut through a forest as a short-cut to get home. Anyway while walking through the forest I spotted a fire, and I thought great, people are camping and I can have a warm in their fire! So we get to the fire and there’s a man there all by himself. He has these huge knives and an axe and a big rucksack with who knows what in. But there’s me asking is it ok for us to have a warm on his fire - and proceeding to chuck his logs on there to make the fire bigger! Well I was cold!
Good job my friend is a big rugby player type and we had his dog with us and he was joking on the way back that he could have been an axe murdered - the funny thing is even if I was on my own I still probably would have done the same!
(I’m over-dramatising things a bit - he was actually a nice fella and all of his kit looked pretty new/decent, so I guess he was into camping/the outdoors etc).
Maybe we need a thread for funny stories