Yes people really are odd!

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Yesterday I met a friend who has some Chinese ancestry. She told me that, since it is Chinese new year, she made a big batch of pineapple tarts, a traditional new year treat, and handed some out to other parents she knew at the school gates. A day or two later, another parent who she hadn’t given any tarts to came up and said ‘Yes, those pineapple tarts you gave to so-and-so, they were very odd, a strange flavour and a sort of slimy texture, not to my taste at all!’ This seemed like a rather odd way to behave - why would you comment that you didn’t like something that an acquaintance had given to someone else? There are some strange people around – and from the stories she tells me I have to conclude that a lot of them send their children to that school! She gave me some of the tarts too – I thought they were yummy and my partner has just snuck in for another! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2023.