The butterfly effect

Lando Griffin

During the summer I brought the family on sun holiday to the Costa Del Sol to get away from it all. Everything was fabulous, the view from the 4 star hotel, the food and the friendly staff and we made lovely new Irish friends. Every morning I went down to the pool and put my towels on some sun loungers to lay claim an them as this seemed the norm. One morning around 6.30am I placed my towels on some prime sun loungers and went back to the room to get the kids ready and go for breakfast. Unfortunately something we ate made us very sick indeed and we couldn’t go to the pool. Later that evening I struggled down to the pool and took away my towels.

The very next morning I did the same and the lad I befriended told me there was awful trouble between the Spanish and Irish over hogging the loungers. Later that morning we headed for our loungers the same ones I claimed the day before and there was a few family’s all friends with each other from Ireland beside us. The OH asked about the row and the woman piped up that they were on the loungers all day and a big Spanish muscle man and his missus came over when they were in the pool and took their loungers. A row ensued in which the Irish girl went to drop kick the Spanish woman and all the pool attendants came to stop it escalating. There was a lot of foul language and the hotel had to employ a towel monitor to ensure nobody would leave their towels for more than an hour. As it transpired the Spanish couple had mistaken my towel for the other family’s and thought nobody was using the loungers on the rest of the loungers. There was fierce badness around the pool between the Irish and Spanish after that.

This is a classic example of a butterfly effect where y
ou do something innocent and the ripples get out of control. But not all bad as some Spanish guy got a job out of it.
Have you ever been effected by the butterfly effect?

mayotom

Yes, One day this summer I was getting really pissed off cause there were no sun loungers available by my pool, except for a bunch of them with towels left on them all day, So naturally I took one one of them and next thing a big arguement started and some Bi**h tried to kick me in the nuts. If only I was soft and let some idiot claim a place and not use it, then the high level of animosity that existed most of the week just wouldn't have happened

Madam Marie

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Have you ever been effected by the butterfly effect?

Yup, on Monday someone shouted what sounded like my name and when I stopped and looked back, they were gone but the end result was that I missed my bus and ultimately Nationwide too. I was so angry, that when I got home, I killed my entire family to death. So, you could say, they were more putout than me.

the groutch

I don't blame the Spanish for being p!ssed off, you put should put your towel on it WHEN you're using it yourself, not hours before so and going off to have breakfast etc.
If I said what I really think of the OP I'd probably get a warning/ban.

kippy

Thinly veiled "This recession is not effecting me thread"

K-9

Must have been no Germans about.

mark renton

Since when has "The ripple effect' been renamed to "The butterfly effect" ?

Where To

That's not a butterfly effect.

That's just what happens when someone does something dickish.

davet82

so butterflys were switching the towels and causing alot of trouble?

Madam Marie

john47832 wrote: »

Since when has "The ripple effect' been renamed to "The butterfly effect" ?

Since 1969, care of Edward Lorenz

Scanlas The 2nd

Yep I travelled back in time a few thousand years and inadvertently stood on a cockroach. Then I get back to the present and history has completely changed. Some guy called Hitler tried to take over the world.

eth0

This one time I was on holidays and a big row ensued over the local pilot school using all the space in the hangars and not leaving any room for the brand new MiG fighter jet I was after buying off the Russians

MistyCheese

One day I made a cup of coffee for myself but I must have put a little too much sugar in it because it tasted slightly too sweet. I added a touch more coffee to even it out and gave it a good stir. It tasted grand after that.

I was going to log into Boards and post the story so people could enjoy it but I didn't because I figured it would be the most boring story anyone on Boards had ever read.

And then I read your towel story...

The End.

mark renton

Madam Marie wrote: »

john47832 wrote: »

Since when has "The ripple effect' been renamed to "The butterfly effect" ?

Since 1969, care of Edward Lorenz

Ye can't go around just doin things like that without notifying people first

mark renton

MistyCheese wrote: »

One day I made a cup of coffee for myself but I must have put a little too much sugar in it because it tasted slightly too sweet. I added a touch more coffee to even it out and gave it a good stir. It tasted grand after that.

I was going to log into Boards and post the story so people could enjoy it but I didn't because I figured it would be the most boring story anyone on Boards had ever read.

And then I read your towel story...

The End.

Harsh crowd in this afternoon i see...

pom pom snaz peeler

MistyCheese wrote: »

One day I made a cup of coffee for myself but I must have put a little too much sugar in it because it tasted slightly too sweet. I added a touch more coffee to even it out and gave it a good stir. It tasted grand after that.

I was going to log into Boards and post the story so people could enjoy it but I didn't because I figured it would be the most boring story anyone on Boards had ever read.

And then I read your towel story...

The End.

surprised you havent written a novel......

MistyCheese

pom pom snaz peeler wrote: »

surprised you havent written a novel......

Well, nothing very exciting has happened to me yet but maybe one day I'll put a towel on a chair and BAM! We could be looking at a series of novels.

Lando Griffin

john47832 wrote: »

Harsh crowd in this afternoon i see...

Agreed, I shared an experience to brighten up peoples lives in this dark economic period for us all, and all the feedback is pure negitive.
Lando Griffin is seriously considering his AH contributions in future may be few and far between.

pom pom snaz peeler

MistyCheese wrote: »

Well, nothing very exciting has happened to me yet but maybe one day I'll put a towel on a chair and BAM! We could be looking at a series of novels.

ill be sure to turn up for the book signing..... perhaps you can have a towel with each book as a token gesture!

davet82

Lando Griffin wrote: »

Lando Griffin is seriously considering his AH contributions in future may be few and far between.

Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!! :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

dont mind 'em lando, we love your pointless storys, please never stop

maddragon

This one time, at Band Camp, I saw a girl stick a flute up her pxxxy

youcancallmeal

I don't think what you think the butterfly effect is what you think it is...

pom pom snaz peeler

tiny misunderstanding!

Chuck Stone

It sounds a bit like that film... what's it called again... oh yeah, 'Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines'.

Uncanny.

Duckworth_Luas

Once, while working for the Italian chocolatier Ferrero, I accidently used salt instead of sugar in the making of a fresh batch of their delicious Rocher confections.

Unknown to me this tray of Ferrero Rochers was to be dispatched to the Korean Demilitarised Zone where the UN ambassador to Seoul was hosting unification talks between North and South Korea.

Kim Jong Il, who was half-man half-slug, detested salt and immediately spat out his Rocher, made an unholy scene and stormed out.

As the world edged closer to what looked like a repeat of the Korean War, the UN ambassador was sacked. Unable to find any international peace mediation work he had to settle for being a towel monitor at a Spanish swimming pool.

And that is how a butterfly effect of my creation helped a guy get a job he hates!

Archeron

This happens a lot when people get sick.
One person pukes and the sight and smell of it makes somebody beside them puke. Then the sight of two people puking causes a third person to do likewise, and before long, there are rivers of vomit running down the street. I have seen this happen.
Does that count?

CrazyRabbit

This thread is not about butterflies. I am disappointed.

NegativeCreep

This is what happens when you get a knacker package holiday to lanzarote.

Knockout_91

I really despise people that hog the sun loungers with their towels like the OP.

It's like when you go to Avoca or somewhere, and there are signs up to say "no holding tables", you queue 15 mins to get your tray of food, and you end up walking around trying to find a table whilst these a*sholes are sitting down at tables waiting on their other half\friend to get their food. Meanwhile, yours goes cold.

Biggins

Madam Marie wrote: »

Yup, on Monday someone shouted what sounded like my name and when I stopped and looked back, they were gone but the end result was that I missed my bus and ultimately Nationwide too. I was so angry, that when I got home, I killed my entire family to death. So, you could say, they were more putout than me.

If you killed your ENTIRE family - would that not include yourself?

Holy crap - some call Ghostbusters, After Hours is haunted!

Chuck Stone

Why people choose to spend hours sitting out in the sun nuking themselves in its radiation is beyond my comprehension.

Dockington

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Why people choose to spend hours sitting out in the sun nuking themselves in its radiation is beyond my comprehension.

A good book, a nice cold beer, a swimming pool and thirty degree heat just go so well together. I never thought Id like it till my first sun holiday two years ago. Unless someone hogs the sun lounger with towels while they are off elsewhere that is :mad: