Admin Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:06 pm
Guveclover wrote:
I'm sure Cuma will appreciate it as he faces the trials and tribulations of his last 200 days of army life. She seems to be under the impresson he hates the army but from what I can see of it, it's a safe haven for him to retreat to after the last three long exhausting weeks spent dodging her.
Oooops, I meant to reply to this very valid point of yours. I too believe Cuma sees the army as a safe haven! I bet if he was of a sadistic nature he'd carry a bat around with him and beat her off with that, but I don't think that's in his nature. He's possibly quite a decent, simple man who just wants a quiet, peaceful life, and isn't quite sure how to shake her off. I can see her eventually clinging onto his leg for dear life until he eventually explodes and shakes her off violently. All that ducking and diving he's had to do in Marmaris must have been exhausting for him, and I bet he broke into a cold sweat as soon as he saw her approaching like one of those stray dogs you can't shoo away. They just hang around until you give them a titbit. And that only makes them linger more. Phut!
Of course, if Cuma was in the village where they're 1000 years behind the times, he could probably beat her with a stick (no thicker than a thumb according to Victorian guidelines - which I think would apply in the villages too) and then have her slung in the local asylum. But that's only in his fantasies.....in Marmaris he has to suffer her. He suffered her in eastern Turkey for a few days too didn't he? Well, for a few hours. I suspect he's quite an amiable, harmless boy who probably doesn't want to hurt her, but he can't resist the socks, chocolate and tobacco she so loves sending him. I wonder if he self-harms over that? Self-harming is rife amongst Turkish men - especially in the army. Back to her, she obviously hasn't read that book 'He's Just Not That Into You' and will still be wondering why he's avoiding her when she's 107 and has a top of the range hearing aid that doesn't whistle when she adjusts it.
I think she has a few other problems too. Besides being a Turkeyholic she could have a thick skull; and besides being a bit deaf and myopic - she seems to be functioning in neutral all the time. Whereas with most people messages get through to the brain in a nanosecond,, hers seem to take a while getting through - if at all. Even when he's been hiding in shops and ducking behind counters to avoid her, she doesn't seem to notice his lack of enthusiasm. I suspect when she's travelling back home on the plane she's one of those with a blank glassy-eyed gaze who looks like she's just resurfaced from a coma, and wears a fixed little smile throughout as she stares blankly into space. And she'd be not trouble. No trouble at all. She's one of those very pleasant, eager girls who drive men round the twist with their incessant, gormless grinning and eagerness to be please.
I can see
Coma Cuma ending up being transferred to the army hospital suffering from 'nerves'. He's got 2 more years of this hasn't he? Oh, it can't be 2 years, surely? Maybe he's not even in the army anymore!
Strawbs
Or maybe a saucy Muslim felt like getting up to mischief? 
is it 2 minutes earlier every day till winter? I think so.
), and unless he is assigned a desk job, it is not compulsory to partake in Ramazam/Ramadam. 
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