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deird_ljMy colleagues and I discovered something fascinating today.
(Some Background:
In Australia, we have no snow at Christmas. It's HOT. And yet we still have snowy Christmas cards, sing Jingle Bells, and dress up as Santa Claus in big warm suits.
It's that kind of cognitive dissonance going on here.)
Our Discovery:
Our office is half born-and-bred Aussies, and half overseas imports. And this morning, we discovered the following:
- People from overseas, when they lose teeth (as kids) all agreed that you put the tooth under your pillow, and wake up the next morning to discover money under there instead.
- People from Australia agreed that this under-the-pillow thing is exactly what happens - in storybooks. In real life, though, we all agreed that you put the tooth in a glass of water in the kitchen, and wake up the next morning to find money there instead.
*finds this fascinating*
(Some Background:
In Australia, we have no snow at Christmas. It's HOT. And yet we still have snowy Christmas cards, sing Jingle Bells, and dress up as Santa Claus in big warm suits.
It's that kind of cognitive dissonance going on here.)
Our Discovery:
Our office is half born-and-bred Aussies, and half overseas imports. And this morning, we discovered the following:
- People from overseas, when they lose teeth (as kids) all agreed that you put the tooth under your pillow, and wake up the next morning to discover money under there instead.
- People from Australia agreed that this under-the-pillow thing is exactly what happens - in storybooks. In real life, though, we all agreed that you put the tooth in a glass of water in the kitchen, and wake up the next morning to find money there instead.
*finds this fascinating*
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Date: 2010-03-04 01:10 am (UTC)Also, your icon is amazing.
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Date: 2010-03-04 06:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 01:40 am (UTC)Personally, I think the glass of water in the kitchen makes a WHOLE lot more sense. You're a lot less likely to lose track of the tooth and you don't have to worry about trying to sneak money under the pillow without waking the child.
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Date: 2010-03-04 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 02:10 am (UTC)Yeah, it was always under the pillow for us.
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Date: 2010-03-04 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 06:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 04:33 am (UTC)HOW IS THE TOOTH FAIRY MEANT TO GET THE TOOTH SIGNAL IN THE KITCHEN?
ONE MIGHT AS WELL SUGGEST HANGING YOUR CHRISTMAS STOCKING ON THE FRIDGE.
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Date: 2010-03-04 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 04:42 am (UTC)Hmmm.
But that... doesn't make sense!
Seems to me that we must have changed to the kitchen divider when we were at the stage of clearly being too old to really be playing tooth fairies but still wanting the cash.
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Date: 2010-03-04 04:44 am (UTC)(Wasn't I about 2 when we got the extension?)
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Date: 2010-03-04 08:03 am (UTC)Weren't you 2 until I was about 16?:PUmmm...
I can tell you I got my own room when I was 10, so you were 4.
There was no plaster for my 9th birthday, but there were walls. So you were 3.
Seems likely there would have been a divider well and truly by the time you lost any teeth.
*is fascinated by looking back at history and trying to see it through eyes 6 years younger...*
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Date: 2010-03-04 04:37 am (UTC)I must be European.
:-p
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Date: 2010-03-04 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 06:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 07:58 am (UTC)I was in the top bunk.
There is no way I could have had a glass up there. It would have been knocked off.
That would be enough reason to have it somewhere else, and thereby set the precedent for others for behold, yee all shalt follow in thy oldest sister's way, yea, verily, yea...
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Date: 2010-03-04 06:49 am (UTC)I say under the pillow... but grew up in the UK... well based there anyway.
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Date: 2010-03-04 08:04 am (UTC)I WANT ONE.
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Date: 2010-03-04 07:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 07:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 10:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 10:04 am (UTC)*grumbles*
:)
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Date: 2010-03-04 12:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 01:41 pm (UTC)Ours always went under the pillow. Apart from the ones that go eaten, of course - then there was an IOU put under the pillow instead...
D-d had a wee pillow with a pocket in it, specially, after the first few teeth - same idea as the little tooth fairy boxes.
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Date: 2010-03-05 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-04 02:48 pm (UTC)My kids tend to wrap in tissue and leave on the bedside table (the older one went through a phase of writing little notes with a series of questions that had to be answered by the tooth fairy as well). I'd much prefer it if the younger one could use a glass of water in the kitchen though, she's such a light sleeper and swapping the tooth for 50p (we're mean tooth fairies *g*) is fraught with danger.
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Date: 2010-03-05 01:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-03-05 01:46 am (UTC)STRANGENESS.
Not quite to the wank level of itsy-bitsy-spider, though. :D