who tried to bring this in here?

[asakiyume]

Some people have the gift of telling dreams so that, instead of a confusing mish-mash of incomprehensible (often even to them) signifiers, you instead get a well-turned, strange tale. sovay, for instance, can do this.

And so can Little Springtime--at least, she just did:

I dreamed we drove to Russia, and there were bears everywhere. We got to a train station, and there were bears there, too, and I said, "I'm sure glad we didn't bike." And then the customs people stopped us and one of them held up a potato and said, "Who tried to bring this in here?" And I said, "Are potatoes not indigenous to Russia?" And there were these magnificent fur coats, and I wanted to buy one, but I wasn't sure of the price conversion from rubles to dollars--like is a ruble half a dollar? Or twice a dollar? And so I tried to Google the conversion rate, but the results I got were totally unhelpful--like how many dollars to the pound, and how many pounds in a stone.

Don't try to smuggle potatoes into Russia
(image source)

Comments

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

I see these fine Russian cavalrymen are used to the weather: They know how to grin and bear it.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

If there were no potatoes in Russia, they'd have trouble producing all that Stolychnya! :o)

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

:D

Conversations with border monitors are the very proper stuff of nightmare and of strange sequence.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

lol... potato smuggling!

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

That is a splendid dream and it makes more sense than most of mine.

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

Fascinating dream.

I love that image of the soldiers riding bears!

[sovay]

And then the customs people stopped us and one of them held up a potato and said, "Who tried to bring this in here?"

That's wonderful.

[khiemtran.livejournal.com]

You laugh now, but wait till the next great potato blight hits..

[yamamanama.livejournal.com]

Funny that we'd both dream about Europe.
I dreamt that Norway was a Belarus-style dictatorship.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

What a nifty illo!

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

:D That is indeed a great gift - and to have interesting dreams, too.

[syomsong.livejournal.com]

NEVER, never-ever smuggle potatoes into Russia!