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I was wondering how Tintin would influence our lives. Like for me, a lot of my days outdoor goes like a Tintin adventure. I can recall lot of times I acted like Tintin or wanted to be like Tintin:

Three months back, my elder brother lost his Apple iMate PDA at the New Delhi airport.
He had bought a Playstation 2 and so was excited. Then, when he thought of showing his wife some pictures he took in Oman, he found his PDA not in his pocket.
It was then I began acting like Tintin…
We started searching at home first, since he is sort of an absent-minded professor. I then dialled his mobile and it was ringing – but not at home.
Then after two tries I got a message about the mobile’s being switched off; my bro told me it was low on battery.
Next I told him to check at the cab service since he came by that. We went to the cab stand and I *personally* checked the whole cab (reminded me of The Calculus Affair).
Then we went to the airport and I checked the places he went apart from going inside the airport.
I started quizzing my brother about whether he bumped into someone, or had he misplaced it somewhere? What was the last call he made?
He’d called my mom while geting into the cab and after that he lost the PDA. Then he told me how heavy it was, so perhaps somebody picked it from his pocket.
Unluckily, unlike a Tintin adventure we haven’t found it yet (my bro lodged an FIR), but it all seemed pretty exciting to me.
I just visualized the same adventure with Tintin and Captain Haddock. Imagine the possibility of the gags!!! Haddock losing his mobile, or maybe something more valuable =p

Anyway, anyone else who had some similar experience, and acted like Tintin?

I can't think of any, but when I was about eight I pretended I was a detective and wrote secret messages in lemon juice and created my own code and coded messages - the whole secret agent/detective deal.
When I was a bit older and saw car accidents on the road as we drove slowly by I would sometime examine the evidence I saw to determine how the accident had occured. Very interesting!

I guess those aren't really Tintin moments. But my mum's like the Professor, she always looses her keys and I have to find them.

Thats interesting Tintinrulz! Examining crash sites for clues ;)

One experience I had which was so interesting for me -
In my school days, when I was collecting Tintin, I used to walk a good amount of distance from where the bus dropped me to home. I once remember seeing a scrap of paper containing the frame 1 page 46 of Land of Black Gold. It was Dr Muller and a wasp buzzing and I never realized it was Dr Muller (I didn't have The Black Island). But the drawings indicated me it was done by Herge. Behind the scrap of paper was newspaper gibberish.

I was pretty confused that if it was from a Tintin album howcome there was newspaper articles behind the page. This led me to a lot of research (internet was not there at that time ;) ) when I finally found out that "India Today" used to host one whole frame of tintin in every edition. From then I started collecting all India Today editions =p.

However, my mystery of who the character was in the paper was solved very later when I bought "Land of Black Gold". It was a very exciting moment for me.

I once found a scrap of paper with some numbers on it and decided it was a clue to something. I spent the rest of the day trying to decipher the numbers but came up with nothing

Rik

My car was broken into last night and the first thing i did was assume the mantle of chief detective and searched the ground and local area for clues. I actually found a really intriguing map on the floor of the car with a phone number... but, unfortunately, a quick phone call confirmed it belonged to my brother for a barbeque he went to a few weeks earlier (the thief had emptied the glove compartment and I didn't know it was there, also, it wasn't in my brother's handwriting).

I was actually quite well able to build up a good picture of what happened, and my wife even had a chief suspect run away from her 2 nights before when she was putting out the rubbish late at night!

Hmmm... not quite like a Tintin adventure, but you can see where I stopped, Tintin would have continued! :-)

I found pieces of paper in a French book that my dad got me from goodwill.One had French writing on it, then under it said: Give to Mr. Iforget(not really). I started to decode it, but whoever wrote had really sloppy hand writing. Then I did what Tintin did in The Crab with Golden Claws. I took a pencil and tried to trace the words. All I got out of it was bathroom.

I travel a lot, so I guess that's somewhat like "Tintin adventures," at least for me. I actually just noticed it a couple of days ago - I've been to Dublin and Paris this year, next month I'm going to Paris with my French class and in October I'm going again with my family.

What I mean is that having to pack my bag every two months kind of resembles Tintin's life. :)

@kirthiboy
reading this thread just now. I too got introduced to Tintin when it was featured in THE WEEK MAGAZINE (and not India today- wherein one side of a sheet featured an Asterix panel and the other a Tintin panel).
never had a Tintin adventure per se- but some time back (around 20 years back) while in school we went for a picnic to Thripparappu a waterfall near trivandrum, india. the river is safe and we can bath beneath the waterfall... there is a small gap- a sort of small cave between two big rocks- a niche in which a person or two can hide. In my imagination i imagined it to be a cave from PRISONERS OF THE SUN...and that there is some hidden treasure out there.

I was nine years old and going out with a classmate to collect books from our class to put back in the library. I just randomly turned on the way back to class and saw my English teacher in that class. But then, when I passed the class next to it and turned around randomly, I saw that same teacher in there! I'm not making it up, it was true! I kept discreetly going back and forth both classes to make sure my eyes weren't seeing things, but it was real! The same teacher in two different classes! I even told my classmate to come and see. This was during interval time between classes, by the way. After checking secretly again and again, I went back to my class before the bell rang. It was the English lesson for us and we had that same teacher. The moment she came in, I went up to her and told her what I'd seen. She simply said, "That's none of your business!" So I went back to my seat. And no, she doesn't have a twin sister, who is also a teacher, I checked.

I have a miniature adventure to share.
Once, my parents and I had gone to Havelock(an island of the Andaman) for a vacation, and unfortunately it was rainy season. And I had seen an advertisement for sea walking and diving from Elephanta coastBeach. I persuaded my parents to take me there, for I immediately wanted to go sea walking like Tintin had done in Red Rackham's Treasure. And the adventurous part was not just the seawalking, but the journey to Elephanta Beach. We were going by speedboat, far from the coast, and very soon, we were in the middle of a terrible storm. It was pouring heavily on us, just like a shower of arrows, and one couldn't see what was in front, the clouds were so low. And the speedboat kept bouncing on the waves like a galloping horse, one that had gone mad. I didn't fear much, for I thought that if the man who was driving the boat could get on at that speed without a lifejacket, then nothing could happen to me. But I learnt later from my father that he had thought that the sea had prepared the grave for us. Well, soon after, we reached a stationary ship a few kilometers off Elephanta beach, from where we would be going into the water with a helmet on the head for sea walking. Although I had a bit of a difficulty at first, once I had gone under the water and could see the corals and the varieties of fishes around me, it felt quite a lot of a Tintin adventure for me:D