To celebrate the release of Brief Encounters we thought we'd hold a contest. We're giving away three downloads of Brief Encounters - one from Nell, one from Phillipa and one from Elizabeth.
To be in with a chance to win we want to hear about a memorable brief encounter that you may have had. It might be with someone famous, a funny incident, something sad - tell us all about it here and we'll each pick our favourite to win. Closing date is Monday 16th May!
Don't worry if you've already snapped up your copy of Brief Encounters - just let us know and we'll sort you out an alternative prize. Have fun - and please not too rude! lol
I'd better start off with mine ... In my first term at college, I went to a disco in a cellar bar. A gorgeous, dark-haired and very posh guy asked me to dance. He wore a white shirt and jeans and tried to chat me up... it was working but after we'd stopped dancing, I was hauled off by my 'friends' to somewhere else.I always wish I'd stayed to find out what might have happened. I've used the Mystery Man as inspiration for two books.
ReplyDeleteThe above sounds like something from a Catherine Cookson novel! I'd probably have been a ruined woman if I'd stayed...
ReplyDeleteI was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed one year and I literally bumped into racing driver Jenson Button. Neither of us were looking where we were going.
ReplyDeleteI'm almost finished with Brief Encounters. I'm absolutely loving the stories! Thank you three for the stories, please continue those coffee klatches!
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Felcia - so glad you liked them! Thank you for downloading and reading them!
ReplyDeleteBrief encounter...um...umm...I think I've led a very sheltered life. *Nodding.* I guess the closest I have to a brief encounter---brief because it was one date, set up by a sorority sister for a dance---with a guy I'll call "Gus." A couple years after that, Mr. saw a picture from that evening, me and my date, and told me I'd been out with a guy from a mob family. How's that? What did I win? (Hi Nell!)
ReplyDeleteI was at a Library Conference in Toronto where author Farley Mowat was the speaker for the evening. At the end of his very interesting talk we were milling around while he stayed to chat with people. I remarked to my companion that I had never met anyone really famous before and that I would like to shake his hand, but I was too shy. My friend said something like "Don't worry, I'll introduce you!" and before I could blink, she had marched me right up to him and said "Farley! I would like to introduce you to Phylly's Faves!" (Actually she used my real name, but you get the picture). The way she said it, it sounded like I was an important person! He did a bit of a double take, like he was desperately trying to remember if he'd ever heard of me, then proceeded to shake my hand quite vigorously while proclaiming he was very glad to meet me.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember if I said anything, because I was dying of embarrassment! After we walked away I asked her if she knew him. "Nope! I've never met him before," she said, and then we laughed like crazy people for quite some time!
I was on a cruise that I had earned from working for a contract company. I went for 4 days and met a guy who was definitely "my type". Unfortunately (or is that FORTUNATELY) I was married. So with the exception of some innocent flirting we went our separate ways.
ReplyDeleteI'm loving these. My one is from a few months ago. I was at our local shopping mall having coffee when i saw a young guy walking along texting on his phone. Hmm, he looks familiar, I thought. Then I figured out he must be one of my eldest daughters college friends. He looked up, our eyes met and I smiled and waved. He looked a bit bewildered but he smiled back. It wasn't until he'd gone that i realised where i knew him from. He wasn't my daughters friend - he was Sam from Sam and Mark - a kids TV show. Oops - bet he thought I was either a mad middle-aged fan or a desperate cougar
ReplyDeleteI so loveeee the idea of Nell as a desperate cougar.... grrrrr.
ReplyDeleteLOL Nell!!
ReplyDeleteLoving these tales of Brief Encounters :0)
My favourite BE didn't happen to me, but it's so romantic I have to mention it... A friend of mine's husband left her abruptly. Turned out he was having an affair. They ran a company together and, unknown to my friend, Mega Rat Hubby had not paid tax bills. She was in pieces at the breakup of her marriage and the depths of his deception. She also had no income. At her lowest point, a bailiff came to repossess her car. He saw how desperate she was (she had no way of getting the kids to school without transport) so he told her not to worry, he'd give her more time to sort things out. There must have been a spark of attraction because two years after their Brief Encounter, my friend and the bailiff guy were married and are still together and very happy!
Argh! Thanks to blogger having a hissy fit this week we've lost some of our lovely commenters. To make up, we'll extend this contest until Sunday 22nd to give people chance to repost.
ReplyDelete16 years ago I had a friend who wanted to set me up for a blind date. She knew exactly
ReplyDeletethe guy for me. But blind date wasnt my style, so I said no. Then on Workers Day my friend and I went to the park, where there were festivies and thousand of people. Suddenly we bump into this guy who my friend knew, and I discovered that it was the one who should have been my blind date. Some how he stayed with us all day, and now 16 years later we are married and have 2 children:)
Love the encounters! I've got a sort of one...I had a crush on a certain boy from about the third grade on. Years later, Freshman year in high school, a friend embarrased me by telling him about my crush, he didnt react either positively or negatively. Completely mortifying. The last day of class, he strangely came and sat on my lap and put his arms around me on the school bus with no explanation. He didn't say anything to me that I can recall, but as my stop was nearing, I tried to get up and we struggled a bit. My earring became caught in his shirt (remember those hideous netted shirts in the 80's?!) and the bus driver had to wait for us to become untangled so I could get off and the bus could go on it's way. It was my very last day at that school and I didn't see him again. I always rather wondered what he was thinking back then. After 25 years has passed, he recently, very unexpectedly, friended me on Facebook. No mention has been made about that weird moment by either of us. Yet.
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